Garland ISD will soon put a property on the market that the Environmental Protection Agency recently cleaned up for high levels of lead contamination.
District trustees approved the move in an 8-0 vote on Tuesday. The vacant lot is worth $45,000, according to the most recent appraisal of the property, which was in 2019. The district will have the land reappraised before finalizing any sales.
Located at 2117 Sunnybrook Lane, the property is one of two Garland ISD locations that were cleaned up by the EPA late last year., officials did not mention the EPA cleanup.at the vacant Sunnybrook property and soil with high levels of both lead and arsenic at Park Crest Elementary, a stream adjacent to the school and the yards of about a dozen Garland homeowners.
The district’s next step is to get an appraisal of the Sunnybrook property. Afterward, the district will begin the bidding process, officials said.The neighborhood where residents and the EPA found contamination is near several current and former industrial sites. Some houses are less than a mile away from multiple factories.
The lead contamination found on lawns of homes and around Park Crest Elementary School is connected to the former Globe-Union battery manufacturing plant, which closed in the 1990s. The EPA said it’s unclear why high levels of arsenic were found in the area. Inorganic arsenic pesticides were once used in agricultural practices,