EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - A $400,000 federal grant will help Everett figure out which of its polluted sites to clean up first.
The Daily Herald reports (https://is.gd/kfGMIf ) the city has more than 1,000 places where gas stations, dry cleaners, auto repair shops or other small industries operated in the years before strict environmental rules. Everett planning director Allan Giffen says oil, gasoline and chemicals at such businesses were not handled as carefully as they are now.
The city is planning to review which sites should be cleaned up with an eye toward which are most ripe to be redeveloped.
The grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will pay only for combing the state’s database of more than 1,000 sites, testing the soil and establishing priorities - not for the cleanup itself. Giffen says that money will have to come from an inspired developer or possibly the government.
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Information from: The Daily Herald, https://www.heraldnet.com
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