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Fact Sheet for Dover, Delaware Rapid Health Impact Assessment

From summer 2017 until early 2018, EPA conducted a rapid Health Impact Assessment (HIA) with the City of Dover and Kent County, Delaware to help the City and County make decisions concerning the redevelopment of a downtown Dover property. This property is a brownfield site – a formerly contaminated property – that has been cleaned up. The Fact Sheet linked below provides background information on the project and the final report.

Dover Delaware Rapid Health Impact Assessment (pdf) (246.98 KB, June 29, 2018)
Officials are seeking to redevelop a formerly contaminated property, or brownfield, to spur revitalization in the Downtown Dover area. They are looking to increase food production with aquaponics, a type of farming that grows fish and plants together.

Fact Sheet for Dover, Delaware Rapid Health Impact Assessment

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