The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding the City of Tulsa $300,000 to help clean up an old industrial site city officials want on the market.
The money is in addition to $600,000 the city already has to clean up the Evans-Fintube site north of downtown. Previous estimates put the total cleanup cost at more than $2 million.
The Tulsa Development Authority owns the property and applied for the EPA's Brownfield Grant to get the additional funds. The application said the property, which was a steel foundry and forge for 23 years and then used for other heavy industrial purposes, may have surface soil contaminated with hydrocarbons and metals.
Cleanup of the site began earlier this year. The property has been mentioned for possible inclusion in several redevelopment plans.
