u o Brownfields Supplemental Assistance City of Coralville, IA BACKGROUND EPA awarded the City of Coralville supplemental assistance for its Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot. With the steady decline of industrial land use in Coralville (population 15,000), urban sprawl onto greenfields has occurred at an alarming rate, allowing Coralville's First Avenue Commercial/Industrial Area to deteriorate. The 200-acre, riverfront Old Industrial Park, which is the target of the Pilot, provides access to Interstate 80 by way of First Avenue. Historically, the Pilot area has been used as a municipal landfill, coal storage area, asphalt plant, railroad yard, automotive and trucking repair business, and waste transfer station. Phase I environmental assessments completed through the original EPA Pilot confirmed perceptions of contaminationin the industrial parkandled to the completion of three Phase II environmental assessments. Supplemental funding will increase the number of new properties receiving Phase I and II environmental assessments and expand the Phase II assessments on a former rail yard, coal storage area, former truckstop, and landfill area. By assessing potential threats to public health and the environment and promoting increased enrollment of target area properties in the Pilot program, the city hopes to spur redevelopment of old industrial properties, curb sprawl, and preserve farmland, the mainstay of Iowa's economy. OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES Coralville's objective is to eliminate any real or perceived environmental impairments in the 200-acre Old Industrial Park, which borders the First Avenue Corridor. Supplemental assistance will be used to enlist community support and complete environmental site assessments of impaired properties in the industrial park, which are critical to making the sites attractive at a time of growing demand forcommercial,lightindustrial,andretaillandinCoralville. PILOT SNAPSHOT City of Coralville, Iowa Date of Announcement: May 2002 Amount: $100,000 Profile: The Pilot targets brownfields sites in the 200-acre First Avenue Commercial/ Industrial Area that is part of Coralville's First Avenue Revitalization project. Contacts: City of Coralville (319)351-5915 Regional Brownfields Team U.S. EPA Region 7 (913)551-7532 Visit the E PA Region 7 Brownfields web site at: http://www.epa.gov/region07/brownfields/ 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 Activities planned as part of this Pilot include: • Expanding public outreach to identify and enroll new sites into the program, leverage support, and engage affected communities in the First Avenue area; • Conducting Phase I environmental assessments on up to ten properties identified through public outreach; and ------- • Conducting up to three new Phase II environmental assessments on properties newly prioritized, amending a Phase II assessment on the former rail yard and coal storage areas, and conducting Phase III assessments at two sites. ThecooperativeagreementforthisPilothasnotyetbeennegotiated;therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change. Solid Waste EPA 500-F-02-106 and Emergency May 2002 Response (5105) www.epa.gov/brownfields/ ------- |