Satellite Housing to Cleanup Contamination of Underutilized Site in Manteca

Manteca - Satellite Housing was recently awarded a $100,000 Brownfields Cleanup Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that will be used to cleanup an underutilized parcel of residential land contaminated by pesticides. Brownfields are sites where expansion, redevelopment, or reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.  As part of its mission to protect human health and the environment, the U.S. EPA is dedicated to revitalizing all types of contaminated land to productive economic and green space.

This year, communities in 43 states will share more than $74 million in brownfields grants to help revitalize sites, turning them into productive community use. As of January 31, 2008, EPA's brownfields assistance has leveraged more than $10.4 billion in cleanup and redevelopment funding and 47,201 jobs in cleanup, construction, and redevelopment. Assessments have been performed on 11,738 properties and 256 properties have been cleaned up.  Satellite is one of only 108 recipients in the nation to receive this funding in 2008.

Satellite Housing will use the EPA funds to remediate the presence of organochloride pesticides on a site located 280-282 North Airport Way in Manteca.  The site is currently unoccupied but was used for agricultural purposes for several decades prior to its purchase by Satellite.

Satellite acquired the site to redevelop the underutilized parcel for the creation of an affordable housing development.