State officials have determined that an environmentally-contaminated property that the Columbus Parks Board purchased from Mayor Jim Lienhoop’s aunt is eligible for remediation funding.
The funding will come from the Indiana Brownfields Program’s Petroleum Orphan Sites Initiative, or POSI, and potentially cover the costs of remediating the former Machinery Moving Inc. site at 1360 Jackson St.
Columbus Parks and Recreation plans to use the facility as a storage facility for parks equipment.
The brownfields initiative seeks to help communities across the state address petroleum contamination caused by leaking underground storage tanks, or USTs, that “cannot be addressed by the party responsible for cleanup as a result of an inability-to-pay, bankruptcy or other factors,” according to the program’s website.
For more on this story, see Wednesday’s Republic.
