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By Christopher Magan, Staff Writer 10:24 PM Tuesday, October 20, 2009

XENIA — City officials will get money from the Clean Ohio Assistance fund to study the extent of environmental contamination at the site of a former rope factory.

State Rep. Jarrod Martin, R-Beavercreek, said Xenia will get $275,878 from the fund to install monitoring wells and bore 30 feet in 70 areas to determine how much cleanup is needed.

Hooven and Allison operated its campus in Xenia along Cincinnati Avenue for 100 years before closing in 2004.

The grant is the first step in a lengthy process to clean up the site, City Manager Jim Percival said.

He hopes to begin the work soon and expects it to be completed next year.

The campus is without utilities and several buildings have been destroyed by fire since the company left. Four teens faced charges for a fire that destroyed a building in 2004.

A second fire Aug. 24 destroyed more buildings. Police Capt. Scott Anger said they have no suspects and this is no investigation.

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It's all public record. Just look up 677 E Cincinnati Ave on the greene county auditor's web page and you can see who owns it, how much it's worth, and even how far behind they are on the property taxes.
@none - The people who own it would have had to get these same inspections if they wanted to knock the buildings down. Just buying the property doesn't require all this. The city is tired of looking at it, and the owners obviously aren't, so the city is stepping in.

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11:36 AM, 10/21/2009

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should not this property have been inspected BEFORE the final sale in 2004? just stupid!!!!

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10:44 AM, 10/21/2009

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I posted PUBLIC INFORMATION on here about who the owners of the property was and DDN deleted it. What a bunch of jack-----! It was public info. This is why the DDN is so stupid, they try to censor the wrong information. You will let people post ridiculous and slanderous information without deleting it yet you will censor true public information. F--- the DDN you have lost a valued customer. This will probably be deleted too.

t
10:41 AM, 10/21/2009

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I agree with Mike. Who owns the property NOW and they should be held responsible for the clean up costs. Plus how much of this contamination has spread into the nearby neighborhoods that is around these buildings? Are the former owners going to help provide any help to them if their stupidity and irresponsibility to their left behind property cause these neighbors health problems? Instead of charging the city of Xenia and the people who live there for the clean up costs, let them pay for it all!

Rabbit
9:54 AM, 10/21/2009

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The only thing State Rep. Jarrod Martin, R-Beavercreek had to do with this was to issue the press release to the local papers.
The work on this was done by staffers at the city and state levels who were working on a solution to a community problem - I extend my thanks to them for the work.

Bev
9:47 AM, 10/21/2009

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