Goodbye Brownfield, Hello Rec Center
By Anthony J. Maggio, Pamela Galera
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The City of Orange, Calif., is turning a contaminated brownfield into a recreational campus and park on a
26-acre site that formerly served as both a landfill and asphalt plant. This
task is being accomplished by creating partnerships and developing common-sense
solutions to the seemingly insurmountable brownfield problems that are facing
municipalities everywhere.
The site is bounded by residential developments to the north and south, and by
the completed first phase of Grijalva Park at Santiago Creek to the east.
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