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What are Brownfields?
The Coralville Brownfields Program works to assess, clean up, and facilitate the redevelopment and/or reuse of potentially contaminated properties known as brownfields within Coralville.
Brownfields are considered real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.
Brownfield Testing
It takes information to identify if a property is a brownfield or not. Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) are performed in two phases to examine brownfield properties for potential contamination.
Phase I ESAs take a preliminary look at possible brownfields properties, involving records research and on-site visual observations. Phase II ESAs include sampling of the soil and water at a property to identify the types, concentrations, and areas of potential contamination. If samples are found to have higher than acceptable contamination levels, cleanup of the site may be necessary.
The Coralville Brownfields Program works to assess, clean up, and facilitate the redevelopment and/or reuse of potentially contaminated properties known as brownfields within Coralville.
Brownfields are considered real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.
Brownfield Testing
It takes information to identify if a property is a brownfield or not. Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) are performed in two phases to examine brownfield properties for potential contamination.
Phase I ESAs take a preliminary look at possible brownfields properties, involving records research and on-site visual observations. Phase II ESAs include sampling of the soil and water at a property to identify the types, concentrations, and areas of potential contamination. If samples are found to have higher than acceptable contamination levels, cleanup of the site may be necessary.
Access Coralville’s Brownfield Assessments
Developers, environmental consultants, and the general public may access all of Coralville’s EPA-funded assessment data. These Assessments are best viewed using a desktop computer.
There are two ways to access these Assessments:
Look Up by Address
Use the Dropbox link which contains Coralville’s 300 brownfield assessments spanning the years 1999-2023.
- To search by address, use Control F (on Windows, use Ctrl + F to open the Find tool. On Mac, press Command + F to open the macOS version of the tool). Once the search function opens, enter the address or street to search. Or, scroll through all Assessments.
- Look up Assessments on Dropbox
Look Up by Map
Use the Coralville Brownfields Map Viewer.
- Follow the directions on the site to click on the map, and then click on the document link(s) in the popup. Look up Assessments on the Tikiwiki page
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