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In many communities there are properties that remain unused despite needs in the neighborhood. These sites, often called brownfields, may host actual or suspected contamination from prior commercial, industrial, agricultural, or residential use. These pro...
Reuse of contaminated land, also known as brownfields, is a long and complex process for any entity, but Tribes can face additional challenges. These challenges range from loss of ownership of ancestral lands, dispersed tribal members with unmet needs,...
The City of East Wenatchee Washington is located along the Columbia River in Central Washington. In the early 1900s, non-indigenous settlers planted apple, cherry, apricot, pear and other orchards, which thrived in the cool, dry climate, and with irrigati...
The Beginning Most Americans have heard of the Oregon Trail – the more than 2,100 mile early-American wagon thoroughfare that traveled through nine states between Independence, Missouri and Oregon’s Willamette Valley.[1] However, what most people don�...
You know the tune, and it sounds familiar, but it’s a different song. Such is the case with the 40-acre Rome Cable Complex 4 site (Site) in Rome, NY. Situated in the heart of upstate New York, the City of Rome (Rome) is nestled in the Mohawk Valley, whe...
Compromises are, by definition, imperfect. Yet in many brownfields projects, moving forward with cleanup and reuse of an underutilized and potentially hazardous site is dependent on overcoming entrenched positions to find a compromise....