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Oro De Amador Property: City Looks For “Plan B” After Learning They Did Not receive Clean Up Grant |
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
 Recently the City of
Jackson held three workshops for the Oro de Amador property to discuss the future of acquired
155 acre historic parcel. About 40 people attended the three workshops
held at varying times to accommodate different sections of the community. Input
varied greatly from everything from donating the property to the Kennedy Mine
Foundation to being the home of some badly needed recreation facilities. At the
end of every meeting people were asked if they were interested in being an
active part of the continuing process and City Manager Mike Daly indicated that the City also
got a good response in that aspect as well. Although all of the plans for the
property are preliminary because of the environmental clean up work that needs
to be done, the community input is considered a great success.
With all the good news
regarding the property, there is somewhat of a setback however, as Daly said the city has recently learned
from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that they did not receive the
brown field assessment grant which he said, “would have helped us push along
with the assessment and development plan of remediation.” Daly said the
City is continuing working with the “Department of Toxic Substances Control on
their voluntary clean up agreement process,” as the City must now develop a
plan B.
Well, what is Plan B? Good question, Daly said. "A review of the workshops will be
presented at the June 11th City Council meeting. The Council will be discussing the formation
of a new committee to examine the use of the property in greater detail." In the meantime, staff will be meeting with
DTSC to review the current soils information available for the property and
discuss how much additional information and possible remediation may be
required for partial to full use of the property.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 18 June 2007 )
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