The EPA visited Atlanta on Aug. 14 to celebrate investments in transforming a contaminated site into a greenspace and citizen service in the Westside.
EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe and representatives from Atlanta’s regional EPA office started the morning at the Chattahoochee Brick Company site. The EPA is allocating $2 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to clean up the industrial site and turn it into a park with river access.
Donna Stephens, founder and chair of Descendants of Chattahoochee Brick Company Coalition, has advocated to protect the land from becoming another industrial site and turning it into a memorial and green space.
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