Brownfields Cleanup Grant Update

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At Town Meeting on March 10, 2020, the residents of Boscawen voted to approve Warrant Article 13 to raise and appropriate the sum of $600,000 for environmental cleanup and building removal activities on the former Allied Leather property owned by the Town located at 36-38, 40-46 and 48-56 Commericial Street of which $100,000 would be raised from taxation and $500,000 would be raised through receipt of a Brownfields Cleanup Grant. The expenditure of the funds was contingent on receipt of a grant of at least $500,000. 

Regrettably, the Town of Boscawen was not selected to receive this highly competitive National Brownfields Program Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for 2020. Our grant application did not score high enough on the ranking criteria established in the FY20 Application Guidelines. As this Warrant Article was contingent on receiving the grant it will not go forward for 2020. We hope to try again in 2021.