[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Director Owens Announces $50, 000 Brownfields Grant to City of St. Johns in Apache County

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ADEQ Director Owens Announces $50,000 Brownfields Grant to City of St.
Johns in Apache County 

PHOENIX (August 29, 2007) - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Director Steve Owens today announced that ADEQ is awarding a $50,000
Brownfields grant to the City of St. Johns in Apache County to perform
an environmental site assessment of a five-acre former uncontrolled
construction dump site where the City plans to expand its public
cemetery. 

The site is a vacant land parcel located immediately north of the City
Yard facility at 405 West 4th North Street, near the current cemetery.
The City has owned the site for more than 10 years. City officials said
the city's public cemetery, where many of the northeast Arizona region's
19th Century settlers are interred, outgrew its original bounds long
ago.

In June 2007, the City of St. Johns asked ADEQ for help evaluating the
site for the presence of hazardous substances. The ADEQ grant is for a
modified Phase II Environmental Site Assessment, which will determine if
the site has been contaminated by the illegal dumping. ADEQ will oversee
the site assessment. 

"We are pleased to support this important effort by St. Johns to clean
up this property and put it back into use for the benefit of the
community," Director Owens said. "We look forward to working closely
with the City to address any environmental hazards that may exist at
this site."

A Brownfields site is an abandoned or under-used property that suffers
from known or perceived environmental contamination.

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News media interested in additional information on this or any other
topic concerning the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality should
contact the Office of Communications at (602) 771-2215 or via email at
communications@azdeq.gov.

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