Newly-installed signage along Sycamore Street highlights the City’s EPA Brownfields Cleanup Grant project currently underway at the former Rath Packing Company site. The outreach tool offers a summary of pending actions and acknowledges each instrumental partner including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Grow Cedar Valley, Eocene Environmental Group, Eastside Ministerial… Read more »
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
City Receives 128a Funding For Rath Project
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (Iowa DNR) has awarded the City of Waterloo a $20,260 grant to complete additional asbestos containing materials (ACM) survey work at the Former Rath Packing Plant located at 1442 Sycamore Street. The investigation is critical to advancing planned ACM abatement activities scheduled to occur at the facility in 2025…. Read more »
New Video Highlights Brownfields Program
The City has released a new promotional brownfields video. The piece highlights Waterloo’s impressive history of using state and federal funds to help transition potentially impaired properties into community assets. Interviews include Noel Anderson, Community Planning and Development Director for the City of Waterloo; Mel Pins, Program Coordinator for the Iowa Brownfield Redevelopment Program for the Iowa… Read more »