United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105)
EPA 500-F-00-265
December 2000
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
&EPA Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilot
Jacksonville, FL
Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5105)
Quick Reference Fact Sheet
EPA's Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower states, communities, and other
stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and
sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield is a site, or portion thereof, that has actual or perceived contamination and
an active potential for redevelopment or reuse. EPA is funding: assessment demonstration pilot programs (each funded
up to $200,000 over two years), to assess brownfields sites and to test cleanup and redevelopment models; job training
pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years), to provide training for residents of communities affected
by brownfields to facilitate cleanup of brownfields sites and prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental
field; and, cleanup revolving loan fund programs (each funded up to $500,000 over five years) to capitalize loan funds
to make loans for the environmental cleanup of brownfields. These pilot programs are intended to provide EPA, states,
tribes, municipalities, and communities with useful information and strategies as they continue to seek new methods
to promote a unified approach to site assessment, environmental cleanup, and redevelopment.
BACKGROUND
EPA selected the City of Jacksonville foraBrownfields
Pilot. Historically, Jacksonville's port has served as a
major commercial center. Agricultural, petroleum,
and paper product industries, in particular, have
dominated the commercial market supporting
Jacksonville. Commerce that flourished for more
than a century has subsided, leaving more than 100
downtown sites with known or suspected soil and
groundwater contamination.
Private and public initiatives have begun to revitalize
the area. Initiatives include construction of a new
sports complex, increased private sector investments,
municipal bond funding used for public improvements,
and Port Authority efforts to improve and expand the
downtown's port facilities. The city anticipates that
Pilot funding will provide seed money for site
assessments and cleanup planning, act as a catalyst
for matching funds, motivate partnerships, centralize
efforts to address brownfields, and solidify community
support.
PILOTSNAPSHOT
Jacksonville, Florida
Date of Announcement:
September 1997
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot focuses
on underused or vacant
contaminated properties
within the Talleyrand
RedevelopmentAreaandthe
adjacent neighborhood of
EastJacksonville.
Contacts:
Planning and Development
Department, City of Jacksonville
(904)630-2333
U.S. EPA - Region 4
(404)562-8493
VisiUacksonville's Brownfields Redevelopment Program websiteat:
http://www.coj.net/planning/brownfields
Visit the EPA Region 4 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/region4/wastepgs/brownfpgs/bf.htm
For further information, including specific Pilot contacts,
additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and
publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/
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OBJECTIVES
Jacksonville's objectives are to establish a
redevelopment process with defined policies,
procedures, and mechanisms that will restore
brownfields sites into economically productive
properties, create new jobs, and increase the quality
of life for nearby inner-city neighborhoods. The city
anticipates that the Pilot, through its work in the
Talleyrand Redevelopment Areaand East Jacksonville,
will create a process that can be replicated in other
industrial urban core neighborhoods, port cities, and
similar waterfront properties.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS ANDACTIVITIES
The Pilot has:
• Created an inventory of 162 brownfields in the Pilot
target area;
• Completed a Brownfields Redevelopment Program
brochure and a workshop manual as part of its
community involvement efforts;
• Developed a brownfields web page located within
the city's web site;
• Developed a quarterly brownfields newsletter;
• Prepared a draft library of speakers for
redevelopment and brownfields issues; and
• Created abase city map that includes zoning, existing
and future land use, 100-year floodplain and land
cover, well locations, and information on the area's
groundwater, including groundwatertable elevations,
hydraulic conductivity, transmissivity, and storage
coefficients.
The Pilot is:
• Working on the Deer Creek Sub-Basin Groundwater
Study in an effort to develop a groundwater model
for the basin;
• Evaluating environmental justice concerns in the
Pilot area and implementing community involvement
activities;
• Developing an information repository including
brownfields site information and groundwater data
linked to a geographic information system (GIS);
• Identifying the roles of cooperating agencies and
organizations needed for site redevelopment;
• Identifying public and private funding sources for
site restoration;
• Taking inventory of private water supplies in the
Pilot area and developing agroundwatermodel; and
• Developing site assessment and cleanup plans.
LEVERAGING OTHER ACTIVITIES
Experience with the Jacksonville Pilot has been a
catalyst for related activities, including the following:
• The St. Johns River Water Management District
provided a $100,000 in-kind contribution toward
development of a brownfields area groundwater
model.
• The Florida Office of Trade and Industry
Development provided a $200,000 grant for
brownfields redevelopment.
• The Florida Department of Environmental Protection
made a $50,000 in-kind contribution for site
assessment in the Pilot-targeted area.
• The city received aj oint U. S. Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA)/U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) grant that will be used
to examine how stormwaterutilities can be designed
to address contamination concerns in the Deer
Creek Sub-Basin and St. Johns River. Study results
will be used to propose regional stormwater
procedures and encourage redevelopment. VA/
HUD has provided $900,000 to date.
Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot
December 2000
Jacksonville, Florida
EPA 500-F-00-265
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