环保署拨款100万美元助 Jamestown 治理棕地：Chadakoin 河工业走廊将做评估清理与再开发规划
美国环境保护署（环保署 EPA）10月22日在纽约州 Jamestown 举行发布活动宣布，该市已获选得到环保署一笔100万美元的棕地多用途拨款（Brownfields Multipurpose Grant），用于处理 Chadakoin River 走廊沿线受污染地块，并推进由社区支持的再开发。环保署第二区负责人 Michael Martucci 与联邦众议员 Nick Langworthy（共和党，纽约州第23选区）及相关伙伴机构代表出席了活动。
环保署介绍，项目聚焦当地原家具制造厂址与其他历史工业地块，包括曾用于纺织厂、化工企业、金属加工、木材场与重型制造的场所。该市的优先再开发地块包括占地2.3英亩的原 Crawford Furniture 家具厂、两处原重型工业综合体，以及一处占地2英亩的木材与制造用地。
拨款将支持最多六项一期环境评估（查阅历史记录与既往采样资料）与最多六项二期环境场地评估（包括更深入的采样与评估），同时支持清理与再利用规划、社区参与，并至少清理一处优先地块。环保署表示，这项工作旨在把闲置与受污染的地产转化为可重新投入使用的空间，支持企业扩张、水岸休闲、更健康的社区与未来的经济增长。
Michael Martucci 表示，Jamestown 的棕地项目是处理原工业地块环境遗留问题、同时为社区建设更强未来的重要机会，通过评估、清理、规划与切实的社区参与，这一伙伴关系可以帮助利用不足的地产重新投入使用。Nick Langworthy 表示，这笔100万美元投资是 Jamestown 书写下一章的关键一环，空置工业地块长期是工厂关闭与就业外移的提醒，如今通过「Core to Shore」愿景，联邦与地方伙伴正合力释放该市潜力、创造投资与商业增长及水岸复兴的新机会；他并感谢环保署署长 Lee Zeldin 与第二区负责人 Michael Martucci 对该项目的重视。
环保署表示，社区参与将是项目的重要组成部分，居民与其他利益相关方将有机会就评估活动、清理优先顺序、再利用规划及目标地块的未来用途提出意见。出席活动的还包括 Jamestown 市政府以及联邦、州、县与地方各级伙伴机构的代表。
EPA Awards $1 Million Brownfields Grant to Jamestown for Chadakoin River Corridor Cleanup and Redevelopment
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced at a press event in Jamestown, New York, on October 22 that the city has been selected to receive a $1 million EPA Brownfields Multipurpose Grant to address polluted properties along the Chadakoin River Corridor and advance community-supported redevelopment. EPA Region 2 Administrator Michael Martucci, U.S. Representative Nick Langworthy (R-NY-23), and agency partners highlighted the ongoing efforts to assess, clean up, and redevelop brownfields along the corridor.
According to EPA, the project focuses on former furniture manufacturing facilities and other legacy industrial properties, including sites that previously supported textile mills, chemical companies, metalworking operations, lumber yards, and heavy manufacturing. The city's priority redevelopment sites include the 2.3-acre former Crawford Furniture Facility, two former heavy industrial complexes, and a 2-acre lumber and manufacturing site.
Grant funds will support up to six Phase I assessments, which look at historical records and past sampling information, and up to six Phase II environmental site assessments, which include more intrusive sampling and assessment. The funds will also support cleanup and reuse planning, community engagement, and the cleanup of at least one priority site. EPA said the work is intended to transform abandoned and contaminated properties into productive spaces that can support business expansion, waterfront recreation, healthier neighborhoods, and future economic growth.
"The City of Jamestown's Brownfields project represents an important opportunity to address the environmental legacy of former industrial properties while building a stronger future for the community," said EPA Regional Administrator Michael Martucci. "Through assessment, cleanup, planning, and meaningful community engagement, this partnership can help return underused properties to productive reuse." Congressman Nick Langworthy said the $1 million investment is a critical piece of the puzzle in writing the city's next chapter, noting that vacant industrial properties have long served as reminders of factories that closed and jobs that moved overseas, and that through the Core to Shore vision, federal and local partners are working together to unlock the city's potential and create new opportunities for investment, business growth, and waterfront revitalization. He thanked EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Regional Administrator Michael Martucci for recognizing what the project means to Jamestown.
EPA said community engagement will be an important part of the project, with residents and other stakeholders given opportunities to provide input on assessment activities, cleanup priorities, reuse planning, and the future of the targeted properties. Participants in the Jamestown event included representatives of EPA, Congressman Langworthy, the City of Jamestown, and other federal, state, county, and local partners.
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