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GoLocalProv | Business | NEW: DEM Pauses on Galilee Redevelopment Plans to Conduct Hazardous Materials Assessment
Friday, July 15, 2022
The Lighthouse Inn property. PHOTO: RI DEM
The Rhode Island Division of Environmental Administration (DEM) introduced that it has paused redevelopment plans on the Lighthouse Inn property in Galilee to conduct a hazardous constructing supplies evaluation.
DEM Director Terry Grey issued the next assertion on Friday:
“With a purpose to higher quantify the prices of demolition, the Division of Environmental Administration will interact a contractor to conduct a hazardous constructing supplies evaluation of the Lighthouse Inn construction in Galilee,” mentioned Grey. “This evaluation will decide the presence and extent of hazardous supplies, together with probably asbestos, which might must be addressed for both demolition or redevelopment of the constructing and/or website. Consideration of any adjustments to the leases on the website might be suspended till this evaluation is accomplished and an correct estimate of the price of remediation is out there.”
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“DEM will share the outcomes of this evaluation with Narragansett City officers and publish it on our web site for public evaluation when it’s out there. The evaluation is predicted to take about 90 days to finish as soon as a agency has been retained and is beneath contract,” he added.
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The transfer marks the newest in an escalating conflict between a gaggle of residents — and property house owners and state authorities.
As GoLocal reported in June, “Certainly one of Rhode Island’s Greatest Waterfront Improvement Battles is Headed for a Showdown:”
On the one aspect is the Rhode Island Division of Environmental Administration and one of many state’s largest — and strongest — builders — Procaccianti, whose subsidiary “PRI X” presently has the lease on a big parcel of land within the State Port of Galilee in Narragansett.
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