The memory of Rosemary Heard’s decades of work helping people get housing will live on at a 42-unit development under construction near Merrimack Valley High School, which will be known as Rosemary’s Way.The project at 95 Village St., being built by.
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Published: 5/17/2021 4:15:29 PM
The town of Jaffrey has been awarded $300,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfield Program grants to assess sites with potential hazards, and prepare them for redevelopment. First on the list are the former St. Patrick’s School and the former W.W. Cross building.
“Brownfield” properties are sites where there is potential for expansion or redevelopment, complicated by the presence – or just potential presence of hazardous substances. Since 1995, the Brownfields Program has provided $1.76 billion in grants nationally to assess and clean up these sites to allow redevelopment to move forward.
“The Town is delighted to have been selected by EPA for a Community Wide Brownfield Assessment Grant. We will be working closely with our local Brownfields Advisory Committee, and our federal and state partners to address the redevelopment of derelict and abandoned sites so that they are no longer a burden
EPA’s $500,000 grant will help (finally) clean Boscawen’s old tannery site
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $500,000 to help in the long-sought cleanup of the Allied Leather tannery site in Boscawen. Melissa Curran Monitor staff
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $500,000 to help in the long-sought cleanup of the Allied Leather tannery site in Boscawen. Melissa Curran Monitor staff
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $500,000 to help in the long-sought cleanup of the Allied Leather tannery site in Boscawen. Melissa Curran Monitor staff
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $500,000 to help in the long-sought cleanup of the Allied Leather tannery site in Boscawen. Melissa Curran Monitor staff
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Two New Hampshire towns will get federal grants to clean up contaminated sites seen as obstacles to economic revitalization.
Boscawen and Jaffrey are among about 150 towns nationwide to receive the brownfield funding from the Environmental Protection Agency this year.
Boscawen will use half a million dollars to clean up a former mill and leather tannery on its riverfront. The contaminated Allied Leather site has sat abandoned since 1987.
In recent years, the city of Concord used an EPA loan to turn another former Allied site in Penacook into housing and offices.
At a press conference this week, Boscawen select board chair Lorrie Carey said residents voted twice at town meeting to help pay for their own mill cleanup.
Allied Tannery site in Boscawen to be cleaned up
Select board member Lorrie Carey, Bill Lambert, and Moderator Charlie Neibling assist voter Marylin Martin at Boscawen Elementary School in Boscawen on Tuesday. Melissa Curran / Monitor staff
Published: 3/10/2021 3:39:37 PM
The old buildings at the abandoned Allied Tannery in Boscawen will be torn down and the site on the Merrimack River cleaned up so it can be used for a new purpose.
Voters at town meeting on Tuesday night approved spending $100,000 and using another $500,000 in grant money to remove any environmental hazards at the site.
“It’s right along the riverfront, so it’s got a nice view,” said Town Administrator Alan Hardy. “It would be nice to have someone come forward and redevelop it.”