Keokuk gets $200K for Elkem Carbide site

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BY PCC STAFF

KEOKUK - Keokuk city officials were notified on Friday that they had received $200,000 to assess the former Elkem Carbide site, which is reported to have contamination issues.

Congressman Dave Loebsack applauded the city on receiving a Brownfields Program grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The funding will be used to help assess the site, which has evidence that it has been contaminated by a toxic release. The city hopes to use the location for future economic development opportunities.

The EPA’s Brownfields Program provides grants and technical assistance to communities, states, tribes and others to assess, safely clean up and sustainably reuse contaminated properties.

“I am pleased that the City of Keokuk has been awarded this competitive funding from the EPA to help clean up and rejuvenate the Elkem Carbide site," Loebsack said.

"The Brownfields program has allowed towns across Iowa and the nation redevelop old industrial land and land that was contaminated to use to further economic development in the region. I look forward to seeing the development that this investment will create.”

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