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[QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 3094419, member: 2133"]
Carrier/United hasn't technically left.  They still own the campus.  It looked like they did complete a cleanup when they demo'd the buildings.  But since they own the property, they can remediate to the standards of the property use (so long as there is no contamination migrating offsite). Industrial standards are more lax than commercial and commercial more lax than residential, etc.  Cleanups are risk-based so if there is no risk (e.g., people aren't drinking the water or touching the soil, gardening, etc), there will probably be something left in the ground because A) it's obscenely expensive to cleanup subsurface releases and B) there are diminishing returns on any cleanup.   The 90% is relatively easy to get.  The rest, not so much and that liability remains.

You would never get a developer to sign something like that.  Ideally, it would be through the state's brownfield laws, but there's still a liability component that even the state isn't really interested releasing firms from, IIRC.  GM, I think, is still on the hook for contamination released from their plant.  There's certainly room for improvement in how we, in the northeast especially, transition from legacy industrial activities as a the core of our economy.  I think it would take some combination of beefing up the state's superfund and releasing companies /developers from some liability, as well as really incentivizing redevelopment at a local level.
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