Brownfields
Success Story
A LocaJ Manufacturing
Expansion Takes Flight
Wellsburg, West Virginia
Banner Fiberboard Company provided fiber-recycling services and
manufactured paperboard products in Wellsburg, West Virginia until the
plant closed in 2007. In 2013, Eagle Manufacturing Company opened a
100,000-square-foot distribution center and 1,200-square-foot office space
on the site. The company, whose existing operations are across the street
from the new site, produces industrial safety and hazardous material handling
products. The company hired 32 additional full-time workers to work at the
new distribution center and offices.
The Cleanup
In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a
Brownfield Assessment Grant to the Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Metropolitan
Planning and Development Council to address hazardous conditions on the
3.2-acre property. Phase I and Phase II assessments revealed arsenic and
petroleum, and approximately $85,000 of EPA funds were used for cleanup.
By addressing the contamination, EPA funds helped leverage more than $16.2
million in additional investment to redevelop the site for productive use.
The Benefits
Redeveloping the site has benefitted the community by creating new jobs and
reducing environmental health and safety risks. Plus, restoring the property
to productive use has led to other economic revitalization and increased
local tax revenue, which can be reinvested in the community. Wellsburg City
Manager Mark Henne says, "The EPA funds were well spent in identifying and
removing site contaminants to get a blighted block cleaned up and purchased
by one of our local industries."
The new warehouse and distribution center
were designed to expand and make the
shipping department more convenient and
efficient.
EPA Grant Recipient:
Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson
Metropolitan Planning and
Development Council
EPA Grant Type:
Brownfield Assessment
Former Use:
Paper and Fiber Production
Current Use: Manufacturing
Industrial Safety and Hazardous
Material Handling Products
We had to get the
site cleaned up. EPA
helped get us started
on the path to reuse.
Mark Henne,
Wellsburg City Manager
&EPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
For more information:
Visit the EPA Brownfields website at
www.epa.gov/brownfields or contact
Joe Nowak at 215-814-3303 or
Nowak.Joseph@epa.gov.
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