The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded $2.6 million to seven Connecticut agencies to clean up brownfields, part of nearly $5 million awarded in the state in the past two weeks.
Connecticut’s awards were part of a larger $12 million EPA brownfield cleanup awards in New England and $62 million across the country.
The city of Hartford was awarded $400,000 to clean up two brownfields at the former Philbrick, Booth, Spencer factory on Homestead Avenue and a former paint store on Edwards Avenue. The city also will receive $200,000 for petroleum cleanup at the Downtown North Project on Chapel Street.
Goodwin College received $400,000 to remediate hazardous substances and petroleum spills at three sites along Main Street in East Hartford, the former homes of a restaurant and two gasoline stations.
The Renaissance City Development Association of New London was awarded $400,000 to clean two properties on Howard Street, which at one point housed a bakery, plumbing business, appliance warehouse, and chemical manufacturing company.
Willimantic’s Whitewater Partnership received $200,000 to remediate the former mill of the Quidnick-Windham Manufacturing Co., which was later turned into a gas station, car wash, and fuel oil terminal.
EPA also gave $200,000 to Meriden, $400,000 to Stratford, and $400,000 to the Greater Bridgeport Regional Council.
This $2.6 million awards from the EPA come on top of the $2 million cleanup grant Hartford received on April 29 to clean up the former Capewell Horse Nail Factory and the $200,000 Plainville received on Wednesday to assess how much cleanup is necessary to restore the former InterRoyal mill site.
