The Trenton Times published the following article on May 10, 2013. To read the full article, click here.
Trenton to receive $200K grant to clean up old auto shop, salvage property
By Erin Duffy/The Times of Trenton
on May 10, 2013 at 7:30 AMTRENTON — The city will receive a $200,000 cleanup grant for an old auto shop and salvage property on Nottingham Way.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency brownfields grant will go toward remediating the Scarpati site located at 10 Nottingham Way.
Since the 1920s, the site has alternately been used as an auto shop, auto salvage storage and recycling center, gas station and used car lot, accumulating a variety of man-made chemicals and contaminants, according to the EPA.
Various metals, chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons have been found in soil at the site.
This latest grant is the 13th the city has received since the EPA’s Brownfields Cleanup Grant program began, for a total of $2.5 million in environmental remediation grants.
Including the EPA funds, the city has recently received $850,000 in state and federal grants, including a $321,000 urban aid grant from the state Department of Transportation to fix city streets and another $215,000 DOT grant to improve safety at the Trenton Transit Center.