State money will help prepare properties in six Connecticut municipalities for commercial and residential use, The Associated Press reports.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Sunday that sites in Hartford, Madison, Meriden, Naugatuck, Putnam and Waterbury will receive about $3.1 million in state funding for potentially contaminated areas known as Brownfield sites.
In Hartford, $125,000 has been earmarked to clean up Ramon Qurious Park at 354-380 Hudson St., in the city’s South End, formerly the site an auto repair shop for more than half a century. The site contains an underground 10,000-gallon fuel tank that will be removed, along with contaminated soil.
Rell says redeveloping the properties provide opportunities for more housing, commercial and recreational uses.
The funding is from the Municipal Brownfield Pilot Program that was established in 2006 and expanded in 2007.
Projects include construction of warehouse space in Waterbury, cleanup and demolition in Meriden, lead and asbestos removal at the former Griswold Airport in Madison and a survey of hazardous materials on train station property in Naugatuck. Money also is designated for a site in Putnam.
