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Baltic Mills
Baltic Mills Makes a Movie
Watch a behind-the-scenes clip from a sci-fi movie called
Soldier 1 that was shot at Baltic Mills this summer
by Story Forge Labs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZYspIvuXmY
Look at this old cutie!
Mill #10 (right and center), at 56,000 square feet, is the only
remaining Town-owned building at the Baltic Mills site. The exposed
brick end is actually the wall that connected it to Mill #1, which was
demolished after the 1999 fire that destroyed the majority of the
buildings on the 16-acre site. In 2008/09 the majority of the
remaining asbestos was removed from this building as part of an EPA
Brownfields grant. The photo does not do justice to the incredible
granite stonework. In the foreground where the trees are you can
just make out the granite tailrace, that brought water away from the
mill and back into the Shetucket river, about 200 yards to the right.
Note also the existing monitoring well in the lawn; this site has been
the recipient of many remediation and testing activities by both the
Town and the EPA since 1999.
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to see our
Site Information Brochure for Prospective Developers
Baltic Mills Updates (most recent firsts
August 2009:
the CERC Feasibility Study, conducted with a $35,000 Rural Business
Opportunity grant from USDA, has been finalized and is available online!
(see below for link).This
new, extensive study shows potential investors/developers exactly what
will have to be done to the site to make it the most economically viable
entity possible, given the basic parameters of the community’s desires
(conformity to historic village setting, downtown and public appeal,
etc.).
Information gained from the study includes such details as the types
of businesses most likely to succeed at the site, given the area’s
demographics, the costs of renovation/construction/cleanup, tax
benefits (for both the investor and the town), etc. This
information comprises a large part of what an investor is seeking
when interested in developing a site for commercial or mixed-use
purposes.
and roof have been severely damaged, the building remains structurally sound and is a good reminder of the quality of workmanship used to build these turn-of-the-century structures. Both the Sprague Historical Society and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism strongly support the preservation of this building. Although it is often more costly to renovate existing structures than to build new ones, the Baltic Mills site offers the best of both worlds—the chance to preserve one building as an example of the former mill, and the freedom to construct a mill-like complex from the ground up without having to worry about preservation, replacement of old/outdated fixtures, losing energy efficiency, etc.
EDDI gives overviews of every town in Connecticut and Western Massachusetts, and devotes pages to commercial and industrial property for sale; you’ll find the Baltic Mills site listed here. Visit it EDDI's site today!
http://www.locationone.com/lois/logon.do?username=CT-CERC&appsection=localities&community_id=6466On-Line Information Repository
One of the requirements of the EPA Brownfields grant (and useful for anyone interested in the status of the Mills project) is the development of a repository of information regarding the site, and the progress on its cleanup. The Town has an extensive collection of mill-related documents on file, and all are available for public review, but we will be collecting pertinent cleanup-related documents and putting them in a centralized location; hopefully many of these documents can also be kept in an online archive that you can access from this page. We will be adding to this archive periodically. Below, for Mills Cleanup fans, are documents in our current archive.
· First Report to EPA
· Baltic Mills property Profile Form
· Baltic Mills Cleanup Workplan
· Phase II TBA report
· August 2007 Baltic Mills Public Meeting, notes and comment
· EPA Cleanup Report (post 1999) includes photo
· TBA Application for peninsula August 2007
· ECAF Addendum Part II
· Cleanup Alternative Analysis
· Baltic Mills Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) 9/15/08
· Mill # 10 Asbestos Test Results 9/08
· Baltic Mills Aerial
· Field Test Workplan (AES and Metcalf & Eddy/AECOM), approved March 2009 (very large file 8MB)
· Final Asbestos Abatement Monitoring Report--Mill #10
· May 2009 ESS Lab work order 0905266 (22 pages)
· May 2009 ESS Lab work order 0905249 (74 pages)
· May 2009 ESS Lab work order 0905219 (110 pages)
· May 2009 AES Map of proposed sample locations
· Baltic Mill Feasibility Analysis
· Feasibility Analysis Appendices
· Baltic Mills Fuel Oil Summary 08-09
· Map of Fuel Oil Data 9-09
· TBA Report 12-09
Additional Mill Resources
Your friends at the Sprague Historical Society have lots of interesting photos and documents pertaining to both the Baltic Mills operations and other Sprague lore . . . visit them!
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Baltic Mills Committee Meeting
| Agenda for 7-19-2010 | ||