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Community interest is growing in the 102-acre parcel in southern Hamden known as Six Lakes, or the Olin Powder Farm. A hundred people attended a meeting in June with staffers from the CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) to learn about the status of remediation by Olin after decades of industrial use. A hundred more participated in a “perimeter walk” around the property in November to catch glimpses of the woods and ponds there, led by members of the Six Lakes Park Coalition steering committee.
After the walk, many of you provided feedback on what you’d like to see as the “end use” of the property. Even though completion of this project is years away, we need to be thinking about that now.
“End use” is the planned use for the property, which should be determined according to the community’s wishes. A remediation plan for cleanup will be created by DEEP and Olin once all testing data is in. (There will likely be additional rounds of testing first). That plan will be based on the end use – for example: industrial, residential, commercial, passive recreation. Different levels of cleanup are required for different end uses.
We don’t know to what standard Olin may be required to remediate. Nevertheless, we want to be able to tell DEEP exactly what the community’s vision for end use is before they create the remediation plan. What do you want to see included in a Six Lakes Park? What worries or concerns do you have about a park at Six Lakes?
If you have not already submitted your thoughts on a vision for Six Lakes, we invite you to post your comments here: https://forms.gle/M8mhBUYNVaye5Xqt8 |
