COLUMBUS, Ind. — A former creosote plant in downtown Columbus is set to become a parking lot for county employees.
The Columbus Redevelopment Commission voted Monday to hire August Mack Environmental to abandon and remove monitoring wells at the brownfield site. The contract has a not-to-exceed amount of $12,700.
According to August Mack’s proposal, the company will work to abandon approximately 38 groundwater monitoring wells, monitoring points and piezometers associated with the former wood treating facility at 53 Lafayette Avenue. This includes all of the wells on site and all of the “down-gradient monitoring wells,” said Columbus Redevelopment Director Heather Pope.
Pope said she believes the commission gained ownership of the site around 2011.
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