WUFT News News and Public Media for North Central Florida from the University of Florida in Gainesville
Gainesville City Commissioners voted 4-1 on Thursday to change the method by which their salaries are calculated, nearly doubling their pay.
Read More »Gainesville City Commissioners vote to nearly double their salaries
Cabot Site Contamination Containment Nearly Complete With Help Of Massive Piece Of Construction Equipment
On the street adjacent, the sounds of the trencher digging can be clearly heard, while smoke and cement smells are potent.
Read More »Excavation Signals Remediation Progress At Cabot-Koppers Superfund Site
The scorned smell that wafts from Cabot-Koppers Superfund site on Northwest 23rd Avenue in Gainesville is from the excavation of the odorous pine tar still in the ground where charcoal facilities used to be on the Cabot Corp.’s 50-acre portion of the site.
Read More »Alachua County Is Considering Cabot-Koppers Superfund Site For New Fairgrounds
County officials within the past month approached the property owner, Beazer East, about the idea of leasing or selling the 86-acre parcel just north of NW 23rd Avenue.
Read More »UF Students Present Cabot-Koppers Ideas To City Commissioners
A University of Florida class project is playing a part in helping an east-side Gainesville community decide how it might best improve the Cabot-Koppers property.
Read More »Open Forum Held For Opinions On Future Of Northwest Urban Core
Residents voiced their opinions for future plans in the Northwest Urban Core neighborhood in an open forum at Stephen Foster Elementary on Wednesday. They expressed their concerns and representatives from GRU, Parks and Recreation, and more spoke about the neighborhood's future development possibilities.
Read More »City Commission Approves Koppers Superfund Settlement Money to Fix Stephen Foster Roads
Several roads in the Stephen Foster neighborhood will soon receive long-awaited renovations. Gainesville’s City Commission authorized the use of money from its years-prior settlement with Beazer East regarding the Koppers Superfund site to fix roadways between Northwest 26th Avenue and Northwest 31st Lane, according to Betsy Waite, project manager for …
Read More »Stephen Foster Residents Hope For Neighborhood Revival
The Cabot-Koppers wood treatment plant became an EPA Superfund site in 1983 after dioxins contaminated the soil and underground aquifer. Now that cleanup of residential property was completed in November, the residents look toward the future.
Read More »Rainy Weather Slows Cleanup in Stephen Foster Neighborhood
The Environmental Protection Agency is doubling up crews to clean up polluted soil in the Stephen A. Foster neighborhood.
Read More »Cleanup Of Soil Contaminants In Stephen Foster Neighborhood Began Monday
Beazer East, Inc., a wood treatment company responsible for potentially-cancerous soil contamination in a neighborhood of the Gainesville area, began soil remediation at their pilot property at 436 NW 30th Ave. on Monday.
Read More »