EPA To Announce $300,000 Brownfields Grant for Norristown Properties

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 April 24, 2017

EPA To Announce $300,000 Brownfields Grant for Norristown

To assess vacant industrial properties for cleanup, redevelopment

 

WHAT:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will announce a $300,000 brownfields grant to Norristown, Pennsylvania to conduct site assessments of potentially contaminated properties, and determine the feasibility for cleanup and redevelopment.

 

The event will be held at a downtown Norristown distillery -- Five Saints Distillery – which had been a former brownfields site that sat vacant from the mid-1990s to 2016.  It was once the site of the Humane Engine #1 Fire House that was built about 125 years ago. An EPA brownfields grant was used to clean up the site so that it could be put to productive use.

 

WHEN:  2 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, 2018

 

WHO:

EPA Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Cosmo Servidio

Norristown Municipal Administrator Crandall Jones

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Region 1 Director Pat Patterson

 

WHERE:  Five Saints Distillery, 129 E. Main Street, Norristown, Pa.

 

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