The City of Corpus Christi, TX Environmental Services Office will hold the first public meeting for their Brownfield Program. The first public meeting will help introduce the Brownfields Program to residents and other stakeholders and to explain the benefits of the effort.
The City of Corpus Christi Environmental Services Office is pleased to announce the first public meeting officially kicking off its Brownfields Program. The event will get underway at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 25, 2010 in the Watergarden Room at the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History, located at 1900 N. Chaparral Street.
This is part of the City’s Brownfield Assessment Project, which is being funded by two $200,000 grants provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The purpose of the program is to assess public and private "Brownfield" properties around the community that are either contaminated or perceived to be contaminated and, as a result, are underutilized or sitting idle. The idea is to eventually redevelop those properties into productive resources that could become useful once again.
The first public meeting will help introduce the Brownfields Program to residents and other stakeholders and to explain the benefits of the effort. In addition, citizens will have the opportunity to be actively involved in the process, by providing input to help make this as successful a project for the community as possible.
It should be noted that Corpus Christi was one of just two locations in Texas selected by the EPA to receive this type of grant funding. For more information about the program or to RSVP for the kick off meeting, please contact the City’s Office of Environmental Services at 826-4060.
For more information, contact Sharon Bailey Lewis, Brownfields Program Manager at 361-826-4060.