{"id":22111,"date":"2025-05-23T19:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T01:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-to-get-11-6m-from-epa-to-clean-contaminated-sites\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T01:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T01:32:25","slug":"colorado-to-get-11-6m-from-epa-to-clean-contaminated-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-to-get-11-6m-from-epa-to-clean-contaminated-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado to get $11.6M from EPA to clean contaminated sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A view of the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters at Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 10, 2014. (EPA\/U.S. Government work)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Colorado will receive about $11.6 million from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up contaminated properties in six cities throughout the state.<\/p>\n

The Brownfields Grants will use funding from the Biden-era Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and are meant to help remediate sites and prepare them for redevelopment and safe use.<\/p>\n

\u201cRedevelopment of Brownfields properties is often an insurmountable challenge for many communities, which may lack the resources to assess and clean up these contaminated properties,\u201d Tracie White, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment\u2019s Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division director, said in a statement. \u201cThe award of EPA Brownfields funds is an exciting opportunity for the recipient communities, allowing them to return blighted properties to productive use and provide community benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n

The largest share of funding, at $4 million, will go toward cleaning asbestos contamination at the Sunset Park Apartments in Denver. The building has 242 units for people 62 years and older and people with disabilities. It is owned by the Volunteers of America.<\/p>\n

The City of Fountain will get about $2 million to complete asbestos abatement on a 9-acre site that the city wants to redevelop into a community center, multifamily housing, outdoor recreation space and offices for medical services and child care.<\/p>\n

About $1.9 million will go to treat asbestos contamination at the 142-year-old Jaffa Opera House in Trinidad. Ca\u00f1on City will receive about $1.5 million for two contaminated sites, including a former dry-cleaning business contaminated with tetrachloroethylene and a previous steel manufacturing site that is contaminated with heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which can cause health problems like cancer and kidney damage.<\/p>\n

The other grants will go to the Cortez Municipal Airport and two buildings in Lamar.<\/p>\n

CDPHE will also get $1 million for its revolving loan funds, which finance environmental cleanup activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Brownfields grant funding is a smart investment in Colorado\u2019s future \u2013 cleaning up historic contamination while laying the groundwork for economic growth,\u201d EPA Region 8 Administrator Cyrus Western said in a statement. \u201cBy empowering communities to turn abandoned properties into productive assets, we\u2019re strengthening local economies and ensuring clean land for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colorado\u2019s grants are part of about $224 million of awards throughout the country.<\/p>\n

To read more stories from Colorado Newsline, visit www.coloradonewsline.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A view of the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters at Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 10, 2014. (EPA\/U.S. Government work) Colorado will receive about $11.6 million from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up contaminated properties in six cities throughout the state. The Brownfields Grants will use funding from the Biden-era Bipartisan Infrastructure Law […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22111"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}