{"query_echo":{"q":"","filters":{"analysis_type":["site assessment"]},"warnings":[{"code":"facet_value_not_in_vocabulary","message":"Value 'site assessment' for facet 'analysis_type' is not in the controlled vocabulary."}]},"total":{"value":2,"relation":"eq"},"page":1,"page_size":20,"self":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/api/v1/search?analysis_type=site+assessment","stability":"beta","ai_marking":{"digital_source_type":{"uri":"http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/digitalsourcetype/trainedAlgorithmicMedia","name":"Created using Generative AI"},"notice":"Summary and key insights are generated using artificial intelligence."},"results":[{"id":"ucs-000668","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/ucs-000668","title":"Soot to Solar","publisher":{"name":"Union of Concerned Scientists","organization":"union-of-concerned-scientists"},"document_type":"fact sheet","language":"en","date_published":"2018-10","source_url":"https://www.ucs.org/sites/default/files/attach/2018/10/Fisk-Case-Study.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The Fisk Generating Station in Chicago closed in 2012 following community activism. While the city has proposed a bus garage or park, the Union of Concerned Scientists suggests the site could support a 9 megawatt solar farm and a 10 megawatt storage facility, leveraging the Future Energy Jobs Act and brownfield incentives to create local jobs.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ucs-000668#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The Fisk Generating Station in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood was closed in 2012 as a result of a ten-year campaign led by the Pilsen Alliance, the Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization (P.E.R.R.O.), and the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ucs-000668#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The city of Chicago has considered turning the site into a public park or a Chicago Transit Authority bus garage, though a 2017 study on a proposed Throop Street River Park has not yet released its results.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ucs-000668#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"An analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists indicates the site's land area could accommodate a 10 megawatt storage facility (occupying 0.27 percent of the site) and a 9 megawatt solar farm (occupying 98 percent of the site).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ucs-000668#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Because the Fisk site is a designated brownfield, it is eligible for financial incentives and could provide local employment through the Solar for All training program under the Future Energy Jobs Act.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ucs-000668#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["solar energy","energy storage","environmental justice","Coal phase-out","job creation"],"geography_discussed":["United States"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["site assessment","policy analysis"]},{"id":"cer-000525","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/cer-000525","title":"april-2018-amsa-land-contamination-site-assessment-report-2b8f36f39e5d5997.pdf","publisher":{"name":"Centre for Environmental Rights","organization":"centre-for-environmental-rights"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://cer.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/April-2018-AMSA-Land-Contamination-site-assessment-report.pdf?x21779","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"This April 2018 Site Assessment Report and Remediation Action Plan, prepared by WSP Environmental (Pty) Ltd for ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA), evaluates land and groundwater contamination at the Vanderbijlpark steel mill. The report concludes that while soil impacts are generally low risk, substantial groundwater contamination exists on the western boundary due to historical coal tar sludge deposition in Dam 10, which created a Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid (DNAPL) plume extending approximately 2.5km west. 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This contamination originated from the historical deposition of coal tar sludge in Dam 10 and has resulted in a dissolved-phase plume extending roughly 2.5km to the west.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cer-000525#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-08-17"},{"text":"AMSA has performed informal DNAPL abstraction for approximately ten years to mitigate off-site migration. However, the efficacy of this practice is questioned because the recovered DNAPL is an emulsion in water and no accurate volume records are maintained.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cer-000525#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-08-17"},{"text":"WSP proposes a remediation strategy of enhanced natural attenuation for the residual DNAPL, involving the introduction of chemical agents to accelerate degradation and inhibit the migration of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and phenolic compounds.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cer-000525#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-08-17"},{"text":"Soil analysis indicates that most impacts are unlikely to represent a significant risk to human health or aquatic systems. 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