Brownfield Cleanup

Decades of industrial activity in a downtown area of Providence contaminated a seven-acre site with lead, arsenic, and other hazardous substances. In 2006, the nonprofit educational corporation Meeting Street secured a $200,000 Brownfields Cleanup Grant from the EPA, which paid for site emediation. The group also secured funding from government and private sources to build a new educational facility. The center, built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards, includes an elementary school and a middle school as well as special services for disabled and low-income students and other amenities available for community use.⁷

Photo courtesy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.