Fact Sheet for Dover, Delaware Rapid Health Impact Assessment

From summer 2017 until early 2018, EPA conducted a rapid Health Impact Assessment (HIA) with the City of Dover and Kent County, Delaware to help the City and County make decisions concerning the redevelopment of a downtown Dover property. This property is a brownfield site – a formerly contaminated property – that has been cleaned up. The Fact Sheet linked below provides background information on the project and the final report.

• Dover Delaware Rapid Health Impact Assessment (pdf) (223.72 KB, June 29, 2018)
  Officials are seeking to redevelop a formerly contaminated property, or brownfield, to spur revitalization in the Downtown Dover area. They are looking to increase food production with aquaponics, a type of farming that grows fish and plants together.