Business View Magazine | December 2019

260 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 You Are What You Feed your furnace cleaner fuel! Choose certified and UL validated biodiesel in your heating oil. AmericanGreenFuelsCT.com A quarion Water Company proudly serves the residents of Bridgeport and Fairfield , and supports a variety of organizations that helpmeet the educational and social needs of these communities. TM Business View Mag Ad 3.6 x 4.9.qxp_Layout 1 11/20/19 8:34 AM Page 1 ammunition provider for the war effort. Fast forward multiple decades later and there has been a large remediation project happening on the site, thanks to Dupont De Nemours, Inc., and they are finishing that up. So, Bridgeport will have the benefit of 400 unspoiled acres that haven’t been touched in a hundred years. Gresko is spearheading an effort to create a land trust that, hopefully, will be able to save and salvage as much of that property as possible over the next few years. He reports, “As far as doing economic development in a green way, I look at these 400 acres and we’re never going to get this chance again to preserve as much as we can. That effort is going to take, probably, two to three years more of remediation to get all the ‘artillery shells’ safely off the property. And we’re not doing this alone. We’ve been working with the Trust for Public Land that has been very helpful in multiple avenues, as far as our smaller parks in the city. We’ve done upgrades that have included neighborhood involvement; we’ve