Brownfields Grant

ADEQ Director Steve Owens has signed a contract for a $50,000 Brownfields grant to the City of Winslow in Navajo Co. to clean up a parcel of land on Gorman Ave. near Route 66.

The 80-acre site, where the city plans to build housing and community service facilities, will undergo an Environmental Site Assessment (ESA), which will determine if the site has been contaminated by illegal dumping. The City's owned the land for the past 20 years. The ESA's expected to be complete by the end of June 2007. The ADEQ Brownfields Program will serve as project manager.

"We look forward to working with Winslow to clean up these properties & put them back into productive use for the community," Owens said. "Our Brownfields program reduces environmental hazards & makes it possible to put these properties to work once again."

The Gorman Ave. site is about half a mile from the Standin' on the Corner site, which is also being cleaned up under an ADEQ Brownfields grant. "Winslow has been a real leader in cleaning up properties through the Brownfields program," Owens added. "We are delighted to continue to work with Mayor Affeldt and other city officials on this important effort."

A brownfield is an abandoned or under-used property with an active redevelopment potential that suffers from known or perceived environmental contamination.