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Friday, April 22, 2005
Environment - Stories today
"Environmental cleanup to preface Scribner work" is the headline to this story today by Ben Zion Hershberg in the Louisville Courier Journal. Some quotes:
With the first buildings demolished last week to make way for the Scribner Place complex in downtown New Albany, the next big step is an environmental cleanup that will include removing about 12,000 tons of contaminated soil.More environment stories may follow later today.The soil, roughly 500 truckloads of it, will go to a landfill where it will pose no danger, said Curt Jones, senior project manager for Shield Environmental Associates. * * *
Jones said most contamination at the Scribner Place site seems to be from the metalworking businesses that operated there early in the 20th century. Soil testing showed lead residue through much of the site, with concentrations near the old Double-7 building, Jones said. Lead is common in waste products of forges and foundries.
He expects about four feet of soil to be removed from much of the block, Jones said, with excavations to eight feet in some areas and 12 feet in the most-contaminated spots. He said he will test the soil as the work proceeds to make sure the contaminants are gone.
Preliminary estimates are that about 9,000 cubic yards of soil will be removed at a cost of about $500,000, Jones said. About 80 percent of the cost will be covered by federal grants.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 22, 2005 08:14 AM
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