City of New Smyrna Beach recently issued the following announcement.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected the City of New Smyrna Beach for a $600,000 Brownfields Assessment Coalition Grant. Funds will be used to conduct
environmental site assessments, prepare cleanup and reuse plans, and conduct community engagement activities.
Assessment activities will focus on the Southeast Volusia County Corridor along U.S. 1, which includes New Smyrna Beach, Edgewater, and Oak Hill. Priority sites include a
vehicle repair and maintenance facility and 70-year-old vacant housing units in New Smyrna Beach, a former honey manufacturing facility and former concrete manufacturing plant
in Edgewater, and a vacant former rail-line property in Oak Hill.
Please join us for a Brownfield Redevelopment Meeting with Cardno Brownfields Practice Group Leader Miles Ballogg to learn more about potential projects in New Smyrna Beach
and find out how you can take advantage brownfield redevelopment grants for your next project on Wednesday, April 20 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Alonzo “Babe” James
Community Center at 201 N. Myrtle Ave. Light refreshments will be served.
The EPA’s Brownfields Program empowers states, communities, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and substantially reuse brownfields. A
brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.
Would you like to know more? Please visit https://www.epa.gov/brownfields and contact Community Resources Coordinator Irma Terry at iterry@cityofnsb.com or (386) 314-4849.
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