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Supplemental Assistance
State Of A/ew Hampshire - Office of
State Planning, NH
BACKGROUND
EPA awarded the State of New Hampshire Office of
State Planning, New Hampshire Coastal Program,
supplemental assistance for its Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilot and additional funding for assessments
at brownfields properties to be used for greenspace
purposes. The watershed is in southeastern coastal New
Hampshire and encompasses many small towns that grew
up around textile and manufacturing mills on watershed
rivers. Mills in many town centers were abandoned as
manufacturing j obs moved from the area, but communities
have experienced population growth along the coast and
are struggling to preserve the region's environmental
resources. Their success depends on reusing and
redeveloping existing urbanized areas rather than
developing greenfields along the coast.
The original Pilot conducted site assessments at four
properties and developed cleanup plans for three of the
sites. Supplemental assistance will be used to carry out a
Phase II environmental assessment and evaluate a cleanup
approach for the Craig Supply site in Durham, a highly
contaminated property at which a Phase I assessment
was conducted during the original Pilot. Supplemental
assistance also will be used extend the brownfields program
inventory to include industrial properties in municipalities
in the uplands ofthe coastal watershed. Some supplemental
assistance funds will be used to assess upland sites that
have reuse potential.
OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES
The State of New Hampshire will use the supplemental
assistance grant to complete environmental assessments
and cleanup planning at Durham's Craig Supply site. The
site was used as a dry cleaner supply company and is
located in the middle ofthe University ofNew Hampshire's
campus. Reuse of the property is needed to improve
transportation and parking and provide space for light
commercial enterprises.
PILOT SNAPSHOT
State of New Hampshire-
Office of State Planning,
NewHampshire
Date of Announcement:
May 2002
Amount: $150,000
Greenspace: $50,000
Profile: The Pilotwill target one
site from the original Pilot in
Durham for further assessment
and cleanup planning, assess
additional brownfields in upland
coastalcommunities, and assess
a site in Dover for reuse as a
recreational park.
Contacts:
State of New Hampshire
Office of State Planning
(603)271-2155
Regional Brown fields Team
U.S. EPA Region 1
(617)918-1210
Visit the EPA Region 1 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/region01/brownfields/
For furtherinformation, including specific Pilot contacts,
additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and
publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
www.epa.gov/brownfields
Greenspace funding will be used to assess a 32-acre
junkyard and metal industrial site that is not suitable for
industrial or commercial redevelopment because it is in a
rural residential neighborhood of Dover. Dover acquired
this site to protect a nearby public water supply. The
objective ofthe greenspace funding is to overcome the
environmental barriers that prevent reuse ofthe site as a
recreational park.
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Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
• Conducting a Phase II environmental assessment at
Craig Supply site in Durham;
• Preparing a cleanup plan for the Craig Supply site;
• Identifying and assessing additional brownfields in 25
upland municipalities not previously targeted in the
original Pilot; and
• Conducting an assessment of a 32-acre former junkyard
in Dover in an effort to reuse the site as a recreational
park.
The cooperative agreement forthis Pilot has not yet been negotiated; therefore,
activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
Solid Waste EPA 500-F-02-079
and Emergency May 2002
Response (5105) www.epa.gov/brownfields/
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