United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA500-F-99-015
March 1999
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
PA Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilot
Lockland, OH
Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5101)
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. Since 1995, EPA has funded more than 200 Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilots, at up to $200,000 each, to support creative two-year explorations and demonstrations of
brownfields solutions. The Pilots 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 has selected the Village of Lockland for a
Brownfields Pilot. Lockland (population 4,357) is
an urban community located along the 1-75 corridor
in southwestern Ohio. Over 25 percentof its residents
are minorities, and the village has a poverty rate of
almost 17 percent. An industrial center founded in
1794 at the locks of the Miami-Erie Canal, Lockland
was hard-hit when a number of its largest employers
closed their doors in the early 1990s, leaving behind
antiquated buildings and eliminating 2,000 jobs—40
percent of the village's workforce. This created a 30
percent drop in property value and reduced tax
revenues by more than 40 percent. The end result
was that 95 percent of Lockland's industrial land—
over 200 acres—became brownfields. These
brownfields are concentrated within seven areas in
the village.
The Pilot will address five former industrial sites—
American Tissue Mills, Celotex I, Celotex II, Mill
Creek Sports and Commerce Park, and the Stearns
Complex—and one larger 40-acre area called
Shepherd Drive. For more than 100 years, these sites
were used for heavy industrial purposes, including a
paper mill, a landfill for an asbestos shingle
manufacturing facility, and chemical manufacturers.
On most sites, massive, multi-story buildings remain.
All of the sites are environmentally contaminated or
suspected of being contaminated.
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Lockland, Ohio
Date of Announcement:
March 1999
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot targets five
former industrial sites and one
larger 40-acre area to improve
the village's quality of life and
encourage new business
investment.
Contacts:
Community Development
Authority
(414)228-1714
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA-Region 5
(312)353-3161
Visit the EPA Region 5 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields/
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
The Village of Lockland's primary objective is to
revitalize the community. By encouraging the
redevelopment of local brownfields, retaining and
encouraging the growth of existing businesses, and
encouraging public/private partnerships to spur
redevelopment, the village will restore the local tax
base and improve housing, transportation, and overall
quality of life .Asa key part of this strategy, the Pilot
will focus on six of Lockland's major brownfields
areas. The Pilot will encourage the redevelopment of
five targeted site s and one targeted area by performing
assessments consistent with the Ohio Voluntary
Action Program (VAP). In addition, the Pilot will
work to secure additional financing for cleanup and
redevelopment activities through the use of state
grants, tax incentives, private funds, and other
resources.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
• Conducting environmental assessments at five
targeted sites and one 40-acre area;
• Preparing cleanup and redevelopment plans for the
targeted sites and 40-acre area;
• Leveraging additional public and private funds for
cleanup and redevelopment;
• Publishing and distributing a quarterly newsletter
highlighting Pilot activities; and
• Establishing a public outreach program with three
components: 1) providing information on Pilot
activities to community residents; 2) encouraging
owners of smaller properties in the village to
participate in the Ohio VAP; and 3) convening a
special focus group of property owners in the
Shepherd Drive targeted area to collect existing
environmental data and develop cleanup plans.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot Lockland, Ohio
March 1999 EPA 500-F-99-015
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