Amid Rossville, Ga., environmental cleanup, Coats American sale delayed
The authority began seeking offers for the site in January, but it voted Tuesday to revisit a sale once the
The oil contained polychlorinated biphenyls, a chemical linked to cancer, reproductive issues among men and development issues among children. The oil ran from the storm drain to the Williams Street Tributary. The night of the spill, a man told police he saw an oily sheen in a drainage ditch across the street from the plant.
The authority planned to review proposals for the site at its
Now, a month has passed and a team still needs to work through the spill. Commissioner
He said the threshold for PCB in the water is about 50 parts per million. Anything above that could be dangerous. But the initial tests, he said, showed the chemical at a level lower than that.
Wardlaw told the authority he wants potential buyers to know the full extent of an environmental purchase.
"That's the right thing for us to do," he said. "I don't want any chance whatsoever of information that's incomplete when these guys made decisions in good faith before this event happened."
Whitfield added: "We're going to make sure that we're fully disclosed with any potential buyer of that property and we give them a clean bill of health."
Before the spill, Wardlaw said the authority received offers from Catoosa County Chairman
Henry, a developer, did not return a call seeking comment Tuesday. But his offer is at least his second planned investment in downtown
Located across the street, the Coats American plant is about 350,000 square feet and sits on eight acres. Henry and his partners have not announced their intentions with the Peerless mill. He said they want to create a master plan, though their aims are impacted depending on whether they own the Coats American site.
"We've got the biggest investment there with Peerless," he said. "Anything we do there, it kind of affects us. We're trying to create some jobs, hopefully."
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