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Brownfields
Supplemental Assistance
Ogden City, UT
BACKGROUND
EPA awarded Ogden City supplemental assistance for its
Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot and
additional funding for assessments atbrownfields properties
to be used for greenspace purposes. Ogden grew from a
frontier town north of the Great Salt Lake into a major
industrial center after completion of the transcontinental
railroad in 1869. However, many railroads and industries
closed during the depressed economic conditions of the
1970s and 1980s. Of the approximately 27 city blocks in
the central business district, at least half are now vacant,
underused, or blighted, and homes are rundown or vacant.
Environmental contamination is suspected at many sites.
The poverty rate among residents in and around the
central business district is three times the citywide rate.
The original Pilot targeted a four-block area in Ogden's
central business district where vacant rail yards, a former
tannery, and large warehouses blighted the area for nearly
three decades. The original Pilot funds were used to
complete Phase I environmental assessments on all
properties in the target area and a preliminary subsurface
investigation on 12 parcels. The supplemental assistance
will be used to expand the target area to include several
more potentially contaminated blocks in the central business
district. Five sites in this extended area have known
environmental problems, including groundwater
contamination. Targeted sites include acanning company,
tune-up center, oil service station, former dry cleaning site,
and junk yard.
OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES
Ogden City is working to remove barriers to the economic
revitalization of the downtown business district and
systematically redevelop parcels in that district. The
supplemental Pilot expands on the geographic area this
goal encompasses. The Pilot will promote redevelopment
by funding site assessments, cleanup planning, and reuse
solutions for several blocks of the central business district
not previously targeted by the brownfields program.
PILOT SNAPSHOT Date of Announcement:
May 2002
Ogden City, UT
Amount: $150,000
Greenspace: $50,000
Profile: The supplemental
assistance grant will be used to
extend the target area of the
original Pilot to include several
additional properties in Ogden
City's central business district.
Contacts:
Ogden City
(801)629-8995
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA Region 8
(303)312-6019
Visit the E PA Region 8 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/regon08/land waste/bfhome/
bfhome.html
Forfurther information, 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
The area targeted for greenspace purposes encompasses
approximately 10 acres of land in the expanded central
business district area adjacent to the Ogden River. Land
has been set aside on both sides of the river to create apark
that will include new trails and an amphitheater. Greenspace
funds will be used for Phase I and II site assessments of
these planned greenspace areas.
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Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
• Conducting a Phase I environmental assessment of
parcels within the expanded project area;
• Conducting a Phase II environmental assessment on
designated sites; and
• Identifying cleanup options and estimating costs based
on Phase II investigations.
Thecooperativeagreementforthis Pilot hasnotyetbeen negotiated; therefore,
activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
Solid Waste EPA 500-F-02-109
and Emergency May 2002
Response (5105) www.epa.gov/brownfields/
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