TS&T Making Progress

TS&T Site Ready for Wrecking Ball

    CHESTER - For more than 20 years, the former Taylor, Smith and Taylor pottery in Chester sat idle, vacant and crumbling, going from the community's major employer to one of its biggest nuisances.

    On Monday, following 10 months of planning and cooperation between Chester residents, the Business Development Corporation of the Northern Panhandle and local and state officials, the structure was being prepared for demolition, with the hope a new beginning soon will rise from the rubble.


Publications

2011 Annual Northern Brownfields Assistance Center Report

    The 2011 Annual Report for the Northern West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Center at West Virginia University is now available. It features the center's activities over the previous year, highlighting our new and expanding programs and a map of many of the brownfields projects we a are assisting.

2012 WVBAC Winter Newsletter

    The latest newsletter from the West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Center at Marshall University is now available.


About Us

Who Are We?

Who we are

Many small communities in rural West Virginia do not have the staff or technical expertise to undertake brownfields redevelopment projects on their own. The Northern and Southern Brownfields Assistance Centers were created to empower communities to plan and implement brownfields redevelopment projects.

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The Northern West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Center, Housed at West Virginia University's Water Research Institute, serves the State's northern 33 counties, while the Brownfields Assistance Center at Marshall University, house within the Center for Environmental, Geotechnical, and Applied Sciences, serves the Southern 22 counties.

What is a Brownfield?

    The Brownfields Law defines a "Brownfield Site" as:
    "...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."
    Brownfield sites include all "real property," including residential, as well as commercial and industrial properties.

     

The West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Centers

    Marshall LogoThe West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Centers were created to promote economic development and environmental and public health protection through innovative redevelopment of brownfield sites. The Centers promote and coordinate the development of brownfield property by providing training and technical assistance, facilitating site preparation efforts, community involvement as well has helping communities with grant writing and leveraging project funding.

    WVU LogoIn an effort to provide comprehensive assistance to communities throughout West Virignia, the two centers coordinate by producing state-wide conferences, collaborating on regional projects, and by sharing current brownfields information. The West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Center at Marshall University, located in Huntington, is housed within The Center for Environmental, Geotechnical, and Applied Sciences (CEGAS). The Northern WV Brownfields Assistance Center is housed in the West Virginia Water Research Institute (WV WRI) at the National Research Center for Coal & Energy at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV.

     

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