[CPEO-BIF] "UI students help eastern Iowa communities identify brownfields"

[Lenny Siegel]

UI students help eastern Iowa communities identify brownfields
Project targets most promising properties for redevelopment

By: Richard C. Lewis  
Iowa Now
March 30, 3017

University of Iowa students are partnering with communities in eastern Iowa to help local leaders identify abandoned properties and decide which ones hold the greatest potential for reuse.

The properties the students are cataloging are called brownfields. These are sites where redevelopment has been complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. There are brownfields scattered all across Iowa, and civic leaders in several towns have struggled to figure out what to do with them.

The UI students, part of the graduate program in the School of Urban and Regional Planning, are helping communities in Clinton and Jackson counties with their efforts.



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For the entire release, see
https://now.uiowa.edu/2017/03/ui-students-help-eastern-iowa-communities-identify-brownfields

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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