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County may get funds to clean up Alpha Portland site
Published Saturday, November 14, 2009
Lawrence County should know by the end of the month if the state will help in the on going process of demolishing the former Alpha Portland Cement Plant buildings.
Commissioner Les Boggs said the Ohio Department of Development has notified him the old Alpha Portland Cement site is in line for a $239,534 Clean Ohio Assistance Fund grant to pay for Phase 2 of a three-phase project to make the portion of the old cement plant property just off Hog Run Road usable again.
Phase 1 was completed this spring and involved a visual survey of the land and review of necessary records.
Phase 2 would entail installing monitoring wells, conducting soil samples and an asbestos survey along with evaluation of the information obtained with these processes. It would take less than 60 days.
Phase 3 would involve the actual demolition of the structure.
“This is one of the things I heard most about when I was running (for commissioner), ‘is there anything you can do to help?’” Boggs said.
Meanwhile, Commissioner Jason Stephens said two regional projects were presented last week to the Ohio Department of Transportation’s annual Transportation Review and Advisory (TRAC) meeting in Columbus for possible funding in future ODOT budgets.
Local officials presented information on Phase 2 of the Chesapeake Bypass while Gallia County officials presented information on a proposed feasibility study on building a connector between Proctorville and Bidwell.
“It was a good presentation,” Commissioner Jason Stephens said. “I’m not sure how they’re going to do it all, they’ve only got so much funds.”
Local officials asked for $187 million. Most of that amount, $160 million, would be for actual construction. The rest would pay for right of way acquisition, planning and design.
One humorous moment in the presentation came when local officials mentioned the project has been in the planning stages for 50 years but only partly funded and that was within the last 10 years. This came, apparently, as a bit of a surprise to new ODOT Director Jolene M. Molitoris.
“She looked and said ‘did you say 50, 5-0 years?’” Stephens recalled.
Phase 1A and Phase 1B have been completed and federal money has been allocated for land acquisition for Phase 1B.
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Posted by RabidTiger (anonymous) on November 15, 2009 at 7:26 a.m. (Suggest removal)
WHY HAS THE CITY AND COUNTY WAITED FOR GOVERNMENT FUNDING..???
WHY HASNT THE PORTLAND CEMENT CORPORATION BEEN HELD
ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE PROPERTY...???
STOP GRASPING FOR STRAWS... AND TAKE THE CORPORATIONS
TO COURT AND MAKE THEM PAY FOR DESTRUCTION AND REMOVAL
OF ALL THE NASTY STUFF THAT STILL REMAINS OUT THERE.
STOP PUTTING THE BURDEN ON THE TAXPAYERS OF LAWRENCE
COUNTY AND OHIO.... PORTLAND CEMENT CORP IS RESPONSIBLE.
Posted by OLDad (anonymous) on November 15, 2009 at 10:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)
they have been out of business for over 40 yrs...they dont exist any more..hard to go to court against a ghost
Posted by sugar08 (anonymous) on November 15, 2009 at 4:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I thought somone bought this property and was going to build a gated community and a golf course????
Posted by lifesaver (anonymous) on November 15, 2009 at 6:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)
bolinger with remax bought all this property and has been selling it off, i guess she thinks that the state should pay for her to make lots of money off this land, since they have so many restrictions on it, can't even have a dog outside and if you decided to sell it after you buy it, it has to be sold back to her
Posted by bleedingheart (anonymous) on November 15, 2009 at 8:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Guess it gets cleaned up when commissioner Boggs buys a house in the neighborhood.
Posted by proudhornet (anonymous) on November 16, 2009 at 5:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I have to agree with bleeding heart. Seems like the snake Mr. Boggs gets just what he wants in the county. I guess if you have the right amount of money, you can get just about anything you want!
Posted by lawintern84 (anonymous) on November 16, 2009 at 7:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Rabidtiger,
Alpha Portland is outside of the City of Ironton and the City could do nothing to have the structure razed unlike the County authorities which could have years ago. I agree with you 100% something should have been demanded from the company a long ago to clean it up. No one really cared until now that a Commissioner moves in next door to the old plant and it must come down immediately without delay. Funny how they come up with funds to repave a perfectly good road, or buy an old school building or tear down an eyesore when they can't find money to run the Sheriff's Department without robbing Peter to pay Paul. Look very close at the noble, honorable citizens smiling in the front row seats that benefit. He does not want that eyesore in his side yard so he will find funds for the good of the order. I just hope it won't spill over to the businesses out on Hog Run because they may detract from their idea of an aesthetic view from their brand new home.
Posted by bleedingheart (anonymous) on November 16, 2009 at 11:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Maybe Les should move to Chesapeake so we could get the bypass.
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