Spirit Lake Tribal EPA Newsletter Spirit Lake Annual Review – Fiscal Year 2017 Environmental Protection Administration Phone: (701)766-1259 Spirit Lake Brownfields Tribal Response Fax: (701)766-1218 Program General Assistance Program What is a Brownfields Site? Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or underused industrial and Joshua Tweeton commercial properties where expansion or redevelopment is Environmental Director complicated by actual or suspected environmental contamination.
[email protected] By investigating and cleaning up brownfields sites, many of which are abandoned properties that pose an immediate threat to the Robin Knutson local community, development can take place without fear of Administrative Assistant environmental legal liabilities. This benefits the Spirit Lake Nation
[email protected] and surrounding communities by bringing jobs to the area, making abandoned property functional, and Brownfields/TRP possibly preserving sites that might have Arthur Carmona historical significance Brownfields Coordinator to the community. The
[email protected] recent Brownfields projects that were completed this year 106 Clean Water Act Program include 4 abandoned homes (Figures 1,3,4) FIGURE 1A- BEFORE Craig Brown Jr. in the Wood Lake Water Quality Coordinator District, and an Old
[email protected] Post Office Building (Figure 2) that was burned by vandals, 103 Air Quality Program which tested positive for lead and asbestos. Melissa LaCroix The Brownfields Air Quality Technician Coordinator is
[email protected] constantly working to FIGURE 1B- AFTER add more Brownfields Sites to the inventory. Also, the public can request to our office if a potential Brownfields site should be considered for an assessment. 1 | P a g e 2017 Brownfields Cleanup Project: Four Abandoned Homes and the Old Post Office in St.