An overgrown former hat factory site with mercury in the soil and a vacant former county courthouse with asbestos and lead paint in its interior are the target of separate cleanup plans worth $4.2 million in state brownfield grants. The first step, which the City Council took on March 4, is to apply for a $200,000 state grant to study the severity of the contamination in the building. “The use of the building will dictate how much work needs to go into it,” said Iadarola, who told the City Council he was last in the building three years ago. “Overall, I didn’t see any major failing foundations or anything of that magnitude – nothing that would require a tear down and rebuild.” The City Council on March 4 applied for a $4 million grant to remove mercury from the site, which is bordered on the east by the Kohanza Brook.
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