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CCRPC Board Training
Climate & Brownfields
September 19, 2012
Julie Potter, Senior Planner
Objectives
 Review CCRPC’s air, energy and climate-related
activities
 Review CCRPC’s Brownfields activities
 Questions & answers
Air Quality, Energy and Climate
UPWP Task 2.2.3.2
Multi-year program; MPO funded
Identify and recommend policies and actions
at the regional, local and individual level that
would help the region reduce energy
consumption, air pollution and climate change
and be resilient to future climate change
impacts.
Air Quality
 2010 in-house report:
Keeping Our Air Clean
 Research on air quality
issues for the region
 Implications of ozone
non-attainment
 Identify strategies to
improve air quality
Air Quality Data
Underhill, VT Ozone Trend
Burlington, VT PM 2.5 Trend
1997 National Standard = 0.08 ppm
20.0
National Standard = 15 µg/m3
Micrograms/cubic meter
0.08
0.06
2008 National Standard = 0.075 ppm
0.05
0.04
0.03
0.02
15.0
10.0
5.0
0.01
PM 2.5 Weighted Annual Average
2010
2009
2008
2007
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1996
2010
2009
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1996
Running 3 year avg of 4th max daily 8-hour avg/year
1995
0.0
0.00
1995
Parts per million
0.07
Major Air Quality Findings
 Ozone concentrations are partly due to pollution
from mid-west power plants and partly due local
emissions
 Major local sources: vehicles, solvent use,
residential wood combustion, fossil fuel
combustion
 Air quality and climate change are linked through
fossil fuel consumption
 Recommendation to develop a climate action plan
Energy
 Regional energy forums
for municipal energy
committees
 $275K EECBG from
federal stimulus –
competitive grant
program funded 8 local
projects
 VEIC energy analysis
study for ECOS project
Climate Change Trends & Impacts
 2012 in-house review
Data showing changes
in our climate
Discussion of
projections for our
region
Discussion of impacts
to environment, public
health, infrastructure,
economy
Current Climate Activities
 Regional greenhouse gas emissions inventory
 #1 source is transportation
 #2 source is heating fuels
 Climate Action Plan
 Regional strategies and actions to address climate
mitigation (reducing emissions) and climate adaptation
(resiliency)
 Guides in appendix for municipalities, employers, and
individuals
 Coordinate with ECOS Regional Plan
Brownfields
 Brownfield –
“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.”
 In most cases, the
property owner is liable
for clean up
Brownfields Activities
UPWP Task 12.5.1; EPA grant funded
Assessment grants to conduct environmental
studies of sites with known/suspected
contamination
2006 - $200K over 3 years for petroleum sites
2008 - $200K over 3 years for hazardous sites
2010 - $200K petroleum; $200K hazardous
Preparing application for grants to start 2013
Assessment grants don’t pay for clean up!
What do we do?
 Voluntary program
 Hire qualified environmental consultant to:
 Review site history to identify concerns (Phase 1).
 Sample to determine what, if any, contamination actually
exists (Phase 2).
 Determine appropriate clean-up actions and costs for
planned redevelopment (Clean up plan).
 Help identify funding sources for clean up.
 Get idle/underutilized properties ready for
redevelopment to productive use.
What have we done so far?
 Browns Court, Burlington –
parking lot proposed for
downtown housing – Phase 1 and
Phase 2 assessments
 157 So. Champlain St, Burlington
– former garage proposed for
downtown housing – Phase 2
assessment and clean up estimates
 3 Maple St, Essex Jct. – mixed use
proposed for increased density –
Phase 1 and Phase 2 assessments
What are we working on now?
 Moran Plant/Waterfront North,
Burlington – former power plant
planned for public access
development – sluiceway dams, clean
up plan for interior, soils assessment
 Richmond Creamery, Richmond –
former creamery in village planned
for mixed use development – Phase 1
and Phase 2 assessments, clean up
planning
 Bright Street, Burlington – house and
garage planned for affordable housing
– Phase 2
What are we working on now?
 Winooski – historic tank inventory
 Essex Jct. – Village center area-wide assessment
 Urban Reserve, Burlington – gap analysis review of
previous studies and planned supplemental sampling
Questions?