EPA grants cleanup grant for plant that burned today

ATLANTA (WDEF) – It was a bureaucratic bit of irony on Tuesday that the EPA approved a grant for the cleanup of the old Standard Coosa Thatcher Mill on the day that a warehouse there burned.

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded $400,000 in supplemental funding for two Chattanooga brownfield projects.

That means $200,000 goes to the Chattanooga Christian School project and another $200,000 for the SCT Mill.

The supplemental funds help maintain momentum to finish up the projects.

But the SCT cleanup probably just got a bit more complicated.

Early this morning, one of the old warehouses on E. 18th Street caught on fire and burned.

The plant closed in 1982 and has been abandoned since then.