For decades, the Swan Cleaners in Mansfield, Ohio, was one of the city's most polluted buildings.
Now, thanks to a $120,700 state grant, the city hopes to finally bring the building down, the Mansfield News Journal reports.
"This should be our last step for this project, to get it done and be ready to move on with getting it redeveloped," says Amy Hamrick, executive director of the Richland County Land Bank, which received the state grant.
Last year, the land bank received a $411,000 clean-up grant that involved removing asbestos from the building, as well as contaminated soil and installing a vapor mitigation system, per the News Journal.
An environmental assessment found widespread contamination of chemicals in the building's interior air and soils.
The state grant will be used to clean up any contaminated groundwater at the site.
"Right now we only have two points on Swan Cleaners and we need at least three to be able to get a direction of flow," says a senior environmental project manager at Mannik and Smith, which will be monitoring wells to determine the direction of the groundwater flow.
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