The Waterfront Redevelopment Project in Chester, Delaware County has been selected to receive the highest honor for innovative remediation -- the Phoenix Award at the National Brownfields Conference in November.

“The Chester Waterfront Redevelopment Project is a terrific example of how to bring a property blighted by pollution back to productive reuse. EPA is proud to be a partner with PECO, an Exelon company, and the community in its huge redevelopment project,” said Donald S. Welsh, Region 3 Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The Waterfront Redevelopment Project is being recognized for excellence in brownfields redevelopment. It is a 90-acre former industrial site along the Delaware River that is being converted into an office park with some open space.

This property was selected as a pilot project under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act brownfields pilot initiative in 2001. EPA, PECO and the Department of Environmental Protection worked together to develop a plan to remediate the entire site. Redevelopment of this site will provide jobs and commercial and recreational space for the community.

The Phoenix awards, established in 1997, are given annually by the non-profit Phoenix Awards Institute to recognize innovative yet practical remediation projects at Brownfields sites in the U.S. and abroad.

This is one of two Phoenix Awards projects in Pennsylvania received among the fourteen winners recognized at the Conference. (See separate article on AMD&ART Project.)

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