The Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 7 has awarded half a million dollars to the City of Springfield to use in cleaning up brownfields. Brownfields are pieces of property that are contaminated by activity that once took place there.
The Brownfields Assessment Grant specifically will be used to identify and evaluate contaminated sites so that those locations can eventually be redeveloped.
Springfield’s Director of Workforce and Economic Vitality said in a statement that the projects are more than cleanups – they’re opportunities to “reinvigorate key areas of our city and strengthen the local economy.”…