\ yj O 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. ------- 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/ ------- |