Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large parking lot behind Quincy House on DeWolfe St., where developer H.J. Davis plans to build condominiums, has residues of lead, arsenic and petroleum under the blacktop, and St. Paul's Parish, which agreed to sell Davis the land, must pay to clean...
State law requires most owners selling land or beginning developments to test the soil for hazards under the auspices of the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE...
Powers said that to prepare the land for sale, the parish must find out what chemicals, in what concentrations, are present, how much of the area is contaminated, and how much it will cost to clean up, she said. Right now, the church is working on the second of the three steps...
...engineers working for St. Paul's thought the wastes could have come from the residential neighborhood that stood on the land during the 1950s, she said. The lead traces could have come from paint on the houses, and the arsenic from rat poisons used more than 30 years ago. As far as church officials know, no factories ever existed on the land, she said...
...problems on the St. Paul's land haveprompted Harvard to test the adjacent parkinglot--which developer Davis also offered to buylast spring--for hazardous waste, said Harvard'sDirector of Planning Kathy Spiegleman...