2007 Brownfields Grant Updates

Moving Ahead….Phase IIs

We are please to report that Phase II Assessment sites have been finalized. Notification letters will be sent to property owners soon after Thanksgiving. 

Before the letters go out, the City will meet with its environmental consultant, AECOM Environment,  to establish fieldwork dates.  Once dates have been determined, the City will submit the required plans to USEPA, who will review and approve.  We  hope to recieve notification of approval to move forward with Phase IIs as soon as the upcoming weeks before the Christmas holiday.

2008 Assessment Grant Update

Inventory, Inventory, Inventory!

Since August 2009, the City staff has been tirelessly working to update & upgrade its GIS parcel database.  Brownfield Coordinator, Nidhi Goyal, has spent countless hours collaborating with staff at CNT, Cook County and SSMMA to update the GIS file system with the most accurate and up-to-date information land parcel data available. This database is greatly helping us with the selection of hazardous and petroleum brownfield sites which will be assessed as part of the 2008 grant and will be used for the Community Health Monitoring Project.

Save the Date: We anticipate holding our 1st Brownfields Advisory Team meeting for this project sometime in mid-January. 

Community Health Monitoring Update

Since our last update, Laurel Berman of ATSDR has been busy completing the Action Model with the input recieved during the 10/15 Community Health Monitoring Workshop #2.  With the help of staff, Ms. Berman is also establishing a community baseline that will allow us to track improvements and quality of life as we move forward with redevelopment efforts. 

Once the Community Baseline has been established, we’ll begin planning for data collection activities. Data collection activities will be based on the issues identified by the participants of the Community Health Monitoring Workshops.