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Superfund
Redevelopment
Initiative
Celebrating	Succ
Martin-Marietta, Sodyeco, Inc.
Charlotte, North Carolina

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"ReVenture is a unique opportunity
for private investment, public policy
and environmental stewardship to
intersect and promote Charlotte's
clean energy economy."
— Tom McKittrick, President, Forsite
Development, Inc.
ReVenture Park location and the adjacent
Catawba River. Source: EPA
For more information, please contact
Melissa Friedland at
friedland.melissa@epa.gov or
(703) 603-8864;
or
Frank Avvisato at
awisato. frank@epa. gov or
(703)603-8949.
For more than seventy years, industrial facilities in western Charlotte, North
Carolina, have produced textile dyes, chemicals and other industrial products.
Today, this formerly contaminated area is the largest area of underused
industrial land in Mecklenburg County. EPA has worked closely with Clariant
Corporation, the site's potentially responsible party, and its state and local
partners to clean up the site and support its return to productive use as the
region's first 1-co-Industrial Energy Park.
EPA discovered contamination at the site in 1982 - disposal of untreated
chemical manufacturing wastes and landfilled materials resulted in
contaminated soils and ground water. Following the site's listing on the
National Priorities List (NPL), EPA and its partners developed a
comprehensive remedy that included capping some site contamination in place,
disposing of waste materials and contaminated soil off site, and pumping and
treating site ground water.
Following the site's cleanup, EPA deleted the site from the NPL in February
2012, clearing the way for the transformation of a 667-acre area along the
Catawba River into ReVenture Park. To make the site's reuse possible, EPA's
Superfund and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) programs
worked closely with the site's owner and the community to make sure site
reuse plans were compatible with the site's cleanup. In August 2011, the site's
owner put land use controls in place permitting only commercial and industrial
land uses across cleaned-up areas of the site and restricting land uses that are
incompatible with the site remedy. The site's owner will also continue to
maintain the site's remedy.
"The successful reuse of the Martin-Marietta/Sodyeco site is an example of
EPA's commitment to support beneficial reuse of sites, using cleanup
programs to ensure protection of future users," said EPA Region 4 Superfund
Division Director Franklin E, Hill. "The partnership between government and
the private sector, and a vision to bring about positive change for the
community has resulted in the accomplishment of a great milestone for the
site. The path to redevelopment has been established and it will lead to a
productive community asset. EPA will continue to work with enterprising
individuals and organizations to bring new opportunities to communities
impacted by contaminated sites."
The site's planned redevelopment will breathe new life into the site by reusing
the site's extensive existing infrastructure - rail and interstate access, a
wastewater treatment facility, 500,000 square feet of existing industrial space,
utility substations and transmission lines, and a 360-million-gallon
containment pond - to create a platform for large-scale renewable energy and
alternative fuel projects.

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Redevelopment
Initiative
Celebrating	Success:
Martin-Marietta, Sodyeco, Inc.
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Projects planned for ReVenture Park include:
•	A 30 +/- megawatt biomass power plant.
•	A 4 +/- megawatt photovoltaic solar field to
be developed on a closed 25-acre landfill.
•	Anaerobic digestion facility, including an
indoor composting facility.
•	A regional wastewater treatment facility that
changes bio-solids into a renewable energy
resource.
•	An ethanol mixing and transloading operation.
•	A propane fleet vehicle conversion facility.
•	A biofuels production facility.
•	A 300,000-square-foot business park focused
on energy efficiency, renewable energy and
environmental technology.
• Office space for community organizations.
Environmental stewardship is also an integral part of
the site's redevelopment plans. The site's natural
resources will be enhanced by a 185-acre conservation
easement, wildlife habitat projects, stream restoration,
and a trail system connecting the regional Carolina
Thread Trail across the site to the nearby U.S. National
Whitewater Center.
By reclaiming, restoring and reinventing this industrial
area, ReVenture Park is seeking to become a national
model for innovative redevelopment and one of the
leading renewable energy projects in the United States.
When fully developed, ReVenture Park will generate
an estimated $900 million in new investment and
create more than 1,000 jobs. The project illustrates
how EPA and its partners can work together to protect
human health, advance environmental protection and
help communities turn Superfund sites into valued
assets.
February 2012
Forsite
ReVenture Park

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