[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Director Steve Owens Announces Beginning of Gorman Avenue Brownfields Site Cleanup in Winslow

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ADEQ Director Steve Owens Announces Beginning of Gorman Avenue
Brownfields Site Cleanup in Winslow

PHOENIX -Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Director
Steve Owens today announced that ADEQ has signed a contract for a
$50,000 Brownfields grant to the City of Winslow in Navajo County to
clean up a parcel of land on Gorman Avenue near Route 66.

The 80-acre site, where the city plans to build housing and community
service facilities, will undergo an Environmental Site Assessment (ESA),
which will determine if the site has been contaminated by illegal
dumping. The City has owned the land for the past 20 years. The ESA is
expected to be complete by the end of June 2007. The ADEQ Brownfields
Program will serve as project manager. 

"We look forward to working with Winslow to clean up these properties
and put them back into productive use for the community," Owens said.
"Our Brownfields program reduces environmental hazards and makes it
possible to put these properties to work once again."

The Gorman Avenue site is about half a mile from the Standin' on the
Corner site, which is also being cleaned up under an ADEQ Brownfields
grant. "Winslow has been a real leader in cleaning up properties through
the Brownfields program," Owens added. "We are delighted to continue to
work with Mayor Affeldt and other city officials on this important
effort."

A brownfield is an abandoned or under-used property with an active
redevelopment potential that suffers from known or perceived
environmental contamination.

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