United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA 500-F-00-082
May 2000
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
\>EPA Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilot
Arvada, CO
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
EPAhas selected the City of ArvadaforaBrownfields
Pilot. Arvada was also selected to receive additional
funding for assessments at Brownfields properties to
be used for greenspace purposes. The Pilot targets
the Southeast Arvada/I-76 area, a corridor located in
the southeast quadrant of the city and the counties of
Adams and Jefferson. The 1,065-acre area is bisected
by the Clear Creek and Ralston Creek, creating an
east-west greenway through the site. The target
area, which has the city's largest concentration of
residents living below the poverty level (12.7 percent),
has a history of mixed uses, including residential,
office space, and warehousing as well as mining,
agriculture, and manufacturing. It is the latter uses
that have resulted in an area with contaminated sites
that have hindered redevelopment.
OBJECTIVES
The goal of the Pilot is to develop cleanup and
redevelopment plans that will spur city efforts to
create agateway to Arvada, including a business park
and an open space corridor that will provide
recreational opportunities, wildlife protection, and
water quality improvements. The city has already
made progress towards this goal through completion
PILOT SNAPSHOT Date of Announcement:
May 2000
Amount: $200,000
Greenspace: $50,000
Profile: The Pilotplansto complete
environmental assessments and
cleanup planning on six to eight
sites withinthe Southeast Arvada/
l-76targetarea. The Pilot will also
conduct assessments and design
cleanupplansforparcels withinthe
Gold Site Parka key link in a
intracityrecreationaltrail.
Arvada, CO
Contacts:
Planning Department
City of Arvada
(303)421-3020
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA-Region 8
(303)312-6019
Visit the EPA Region 8 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/region08/land_waste/bfhome/bfhome.html
For further information, including specific Pilot contacts,
additional Pilot information, brown fields news and events, and
publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/
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of a land use study, preliminary environmental
assessments, and a market analysis that underscored
the potential for commercial and residential
development and identified brownfields as a barrier to
such redevelopment efforts. Additionally, the Pilot
plans to conduct environmental assessments and
cleanup planning on parcels within the Gold Site Park,
a future greenspace area at the center of the Arvada/
1-76 target area. This area is key to the redevelopment
of a recreational trail corridor that links urban Denver
with the foothills of Jefferson County.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
Continuing and completing preliminary assessments
on the target area;
Conducting Phase II environmental assessments on
six to eight sites;
Establishing cleanup plans for sites with completed
Phase II assessments;
Completing site assessments and cleanup planning
on parcels within Gold Site Park to spur efforts to
develop additional greenspaces;
Supplementing a property database on lease rates,
vacancies, and redevelopment sites with
environmental information on subject properties in
the project area for use in working with private
property owners and developers;
Working with adj acent jurisdictions through an Intra-
Government Agreement (IGA) to pursue
assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment of sites
not located in the City of Arvada;
Developing a remediation plan for specific
properties, with implementation actions, milestones,
tools, and resources, that links environmental
conditions to subsequent economic redevelopment
strategies for the area;
Completing a market analysis of the target area that
quantifies the competitive advantages and
disadvantages of redevelopment regarding specific
environmental constraints of properties;
Facilitating quarterly community meetings to involve
residents in site selection, assessment, and cleanup
planning efforts; and
Ensuring that community outreach efforts reach
Spanish- and Russian-speaking residents by offering
bilingual support.
The cooperative agreementforthis Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subjectto change.
Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot
May2000
Arvada, CO
EPA 500-F-00-082
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