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Brownfield Sites

Brownfield sites are abandoned or underused industrial and commercial facilities available for re-use. Expansion or redevelopment of such a facility may be complicated by real or perceived environmental contaminations.[1] Cf. Waste (law). Example of brownfield land at a disused gasworks site after excavation, with soil contamination from removed underground storage tanks.

In the United States city planning jargon, a brownfield site (or simply a brownfield) is land previously used for industrial purposes or certain commercial uses. The land may be contaminated by low concentrations of hazardous waste or pollution and has the potential to be reused once it is cleaned up. Land that is more severely contaminated and has high concentrations of hazardous waste or pollution, such as a Superfund site, does not fall under the brownfield classification. Mothballed brownfields are properties which the owners are not willing to transfer or put to productive reuse.[2]

In the United Kingdom, the term for previously used land is often referred to as "previously developed land" or  PDL. Brownfield is land that has been abandoned or underutilized due to pollution from industrial use. Generally, industrial brownfield sites exist in a city's or town's industrial section in locations with abandoned factories or commercial buildings, or other previously polluting operations like  steel mills, refineries, or … read 

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