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Please SIGN and put a stop to this madness - residents need their parks.

https://www.change.org/p/mayor-frank-jackson-cleveland-oh-michael-cox-director-of-public-works-city-of-cleveland-brian-cummins-councilman-ward-14-city-of-cleveland-save-storer-park

Clark Field Renovation

At a late February community meeting, the City of Cleveland

reported that the renovation of Clark Field will begin in 2015.

For this reason, no permits will be given to use the park for

organized activities. The park is open to the public, but there

will be heavy equipment in the park at times as they are still

doing soil testing.

The City of Cleveland, Councilman Joe Cimperman and the

Friends of Clark Field will publicize another…

Representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Health agencies and Cleveland  representatives  will be available 2:00-4:00 pm and 6:00 to 8:00pm on April 3^rd to meet with you and discuss the W.C. Reed  site.    The informational meeting will take place at the St. Barbara’s Church Parish Hall at 1505 Denison in your neighborhood.  Tables will be set up for you to visit the different representatives at your convenience.

The purpose of the informal…

We seek the need of independent experts to review and investigate this proposed remediation plan for W. C. Reed Park. We seek the help of an environmental attorney to send EPA a letter addressing the need for topsoil testing and legal issues concerning the use of emergency funding for a brownfield site where no surface contamination has been shown to be present…

At Southwest Citizens meeting 9/5 - James Justice from EPA spoke entire time -responding to resident questions and allaying fears about testing on adjacent property owner properties - the waiver allowed access to proceed with testing - residents are encouraged to contact Dane Reich to address their preferred strategy for the remediation - http://www.livecleveland.org/node/6030 an ad hoc group has formed to address concerns.

Several months ago, Tim and I were asked to join a group of neighbors who were trying to save the trees at W.C. Reed Park. “The City” (city employees dealing with this have been Don Kasych, Richard Silva, and Director Michael Cox) said that a mere 9 trees out of 60 oak, cottonwood, and linden trees would be saved when the soil remediation authorized and paid for by the Federal EPA was accomplished. We found this outrageous and unacceptable—these are large, mature, valuable trees that…

The questions that have not been addressed or answered to our satisfaction include the following:

1. How significant are the health risks posed by the contaminants to those (occasionally) using the park and to those living in the immediate and the extended vicinity of the park and the landfill?

2. How will the toxic landfill problem impact the property values of homes built on, adjoining or in the general vicinity of the landfill area that includes and extends beyond…

August 26th, 2013 at 6:30pm

St. Barbara’s Church Hall, 1505 Denison Ave.

The closing of W.C. Reed Park has been a very hot topic in our community. This park has been closed since last fall.

Many of you attended the emergency meeting that was called last December to let us know what was going on with the park. Apparently, toxic contaminants (Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons PAH’s) were found in the park soil. Unfortunately we have not been given much information on the final…

***Important Notice***

COMMUNITY MEETING

CONCERNING

Remediation Plans for W. C. REED PARK

August 26^th, 2013 at 6:30pm

St. Barbara’s Church Hall, 1505 Denison Ave.

The closing of W.C. Reed Park has been a very hot topic in our community. This park has been closed since last fall.

Many of you attended the emergency meeting that was called last December to let us know what was going on with…

Councilman Cimperman called me Friday 8/2 p.m. - in fairness - he is committed to many public events in August - and I am grateful that he returned my call from the a.m. He is working to meet residents needs - we need to get major requests in order and be ready to present to him for possible legal document to support resident requests. He is and continues to be in support of the residents' requests.

Roland Klausen organized walk through on Fri 5/17 3:15 p.m. with Councilman Joe Cimperman. John Baran, Gloria and Tim Ferris, Roland, Connie Davis. City Sr. Landscape Architect Don Kasych and Park Commissioner Richard Silva walked through and identified 44 (48?) trees that the City claims HAVE to be destroyed in remediation. The City is now claiming this is part of the plan authorized by "federal" EPA.  Councilman Cimperman is following up to determine the validity of this claim and is to…