ADEQ Awards a $72,489 Brownfields Grant to Pine Forest Education Association

adeq-1FLAGSTAFF — Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) officials announced today a Brownfields Grant award of $72,489 to the Pine Forest Education Association (PFEA) to perform an asbestos and lead-based paint abatement at a vacant church located at 2257 E. Cedar Ave in Flagstaff in support of the Pine Forest Charter School (http://pineforestschool.org/) expansion plan to accommodate increased enrollment. Constructed in 1967, the 23,000-square-foot multistory, multi-material building is located on an approximate 3.5-acre property. The charter school plans to modify the existing structure as well as construct new buildings to provide its K–8 curricula to more students.

Redeveloping brownfields has the potential to reduce environmental hazards, mitigate public health threats, create new business opportunities, increase tax revenue and restore habitats and blighted areas to productive use. Program funds are limited and available to eligible applicants in the order that they apply and qualify.

Established in 2003, ADEQ’s BAP conducts projects through Arizona’s State Response Grant using funds provided by the Environmental Protection Agency. The program has funded more than 70 projects, assisting entities from local governments, schools, hospitals and nonprofits to tribes in completing environmental assessments, cleanup and restoration.

Strong thunderstorms possible tonight

WILLIAMS — The NOAA warns of severe thunderstorms possible through tonight. The issued a severe weather warning which reads:

MOISTURE IS BEING DRAWN NORTHWARD AHEAD OF A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM
AND WILL BRING INCREASING CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS TO MOST OF NORTHERN ARIZONA THROUGH TONIGHT. ISOLATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY
WINDS.

ON FRIDAY, THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE SLOWLY NORTHWARD
ACROSS ARIZONA. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WILL CONTINUE, WITH THE GREATEST COVERAGE OVER NORTHEASTERN
ARIZONA. ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH SMALL
HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. MINOR FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE
HEAVIEST SHOWERS. EVENT TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 0.50″ TO 1.50″
ARE FORECAST, WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL OVER SOUTHERN NAVAJO AND
APACHE COUNTIES.

It is recommended that you keep pets indoors.