The Environmental Protection Agency defines a brownfield as a site which is contaminated or potentially contaminated and complicates the future development of the site.
BOSTON - Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray on Thursday announced that the 170-acre Ludlow Mills site in Ludlow has been designated for “a brownfields support team,” a state initiative that brings together state, local and federal agencies to help speed environmental cleanup and the reuse of industrial properties for economic development.
During an event at the Statehouse, Murray said that since 2008, 24 state, local, and federal agencies have joined to tackle some of the state’s most complex “brownfields” projects.
Murray designated five new projects around the state for the initiative.
The Environmental Protection Agency defines a brownfield as a site which is contaminated or potentially contaminated and complicates the future development of the site.
Back in September, ground was broken on another part of the property for the new $27 million HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Western Massachusetts.