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Reuse Examples - Public Reuse
Once an abandoned pesticide plant surrounded by several highly-contaminated acres of soil, the Troutman House has been cleaned and remodeled, and is now used as a Welcome Center and as office space for the Fort Valley Chamber of Commerce.
Public reuse of formerly contaminated properties refers to use of all or portion of a site by a local, county, or State governmental agency, or a non-profit organiztion. Reuse examples can include transporation (rail line, train station), libaries and schools, government buildings, and public infrastructure (roads, utilities, other public service).
Continued Use
- Brodhead Creek (Pennsylvania) - treatment plant
- Crystal City Airport (Texas) - municipal airport
- Hastings Ground Water Contamination (Nebraska) - utility irrigation
- Ravenswood PCE (West Virginia) - drinking water plant
- Shaw Avenue Dump (Iowa) - municipal landfill
- Tomah Fairgrounds (Wisconsin) - parking
- Varsol Spill (Florida) - airport facility
- Vineland State School (New Jersey) - state medical facility
New Use
- Abex Corporation (Virginia) - fire department buildings
- Allied Paper, Inc./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River (Michigan) - roof materials manufacturing
- Augustus Hook (Indiana) - transfer facility
- Bayou Bonfouca (Louisiana) - office space
- Chemical Metals Industries (Maryland) - office space
- Columbus Old Municipal Landfill #1 (Indiana) - state highway
- Commencement Bay (Washington) - port facilities
- Eastern Surplus Company (Maine) - archaeological research site
- Enterprise Avenue (Pennsylvania) - airport runway
- Lockheed West Seattle (Washington) - port container shipping facility
- Miami Drum Services (Florida) - city repair shop
- New Castle Spill (Delaware) - office space
- NL Industries/Tara Corp Lead Smelter (Illinois) - intermodal terminal
- Northwest Transformer (Washington) - public parking
- Norton Air Force Base (Carlifornia) - airport parking
- Old Bethpage Landfill (New York) - waste transfer facility, city methane system
- Pacific Sound Resources (Washington) - port facilities
- Pallas Yard (Utah) - transit lines
- Peoples Natural Gas Co. (Iowa) - equipment storage
- Rosen Brothers Scrap (New York) - transit facility
- Syosset Landfill (New York) - equipment storage
- Tex Tin (Texas) - warehouse distribution and freight center
- Vertac, Inc. (Arkansas) - recycling facility
- Whiteford Sales and Service Inc. (Indiana) - city water retention basin
- Woolfolk Chemical Works (Georgia) - library and office space