The land also lies in a flood plain and will, according to the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, need to be raised before anything new is constructed there to avoid future flooding during severe storms. Parks said Bridgeport Station Development is responsible for the underground clean up costs, the extent of which are still being determined, thus the $1 purchase price. Meanwhile the state last fall committed $22.5 million toward razing the plant through the new Connecticut Community Investment Fund. That pot of money is administered by a board consisting of state legislators and various department heads. A few of Bridgeport’s other requests for CIF dollars have been rebuffed in recent years, but Lamont noted his administration had no qualms about investing in taking the plant down. The plant was decommissioned in 2021 under an agreement initially forged under Ganim’s predecessor, Mayor Bill Finch, who was not in attendance Tuesday, and continued when Ganim took office in late 2015. In exchange PSEG built a new natural gas-fired facility next door that came online in 2019 and was sold in 2023.
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