Martha Marx

SENATOR MARX ENCOURAGED BY $200,000 IN GRANTS FOR PROPERTY REMEDIATION IN WATERFORD

Today, State Senator Martha Marx (D-New London) was encouraged following the announcement that the state will invest $200,000 in two separate grants to Waterford, supporting blighted property remediation through the state’s Brownfield Remediation and Development Program. The funds will be used to move forward two projects in town that will remediate brownfield sites for new use.

“Redeveloping properties in our communities, especially ones that have previously had uses making them brownfields, is a tool benefitting local economies, local housing and local business opportunities,” said Sen. Marx. “I’m grateful to the Governor and the Department of Economic and Community Development for their support.”

As part of a $23.8 million release of funds to remediate properties around the state, Waterford will receive $100,000 grants each, respectively, for an environmental investigation of the 221-acre site at 607 Mohegan Ave. Parkway, formerly a dredged materials dumping location for the U.S. Navy, and to assess a 1.41-acre site at 74 Scotch Cap Road that previously operated as a petroleum terminal, which will be redeveloped into open space use.