Editing Fitchburg, Massachusetts (section)

===Fitchburg Central Steam Plant===

The Fitchburg Central Steam Plant (locally known by its nickname: the PLT) was built in 1928 to provide steam and electricity to the many local paper mills.  As the paper mills were abandoned or improved the Central Steam Plant fell into disuse and was abandoned.  In 2008, the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]] designated the Central Steam Plant a [[brownfield]] site due to contamination of the site soil and groundwater with metals and inorganic contaminants.  The EPA provided the City of Fitchburg $50,500 in grant money<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cfpub.epa.gov/bf_factsheets/gfs/index.cfm?xpg_id=378&display_type=HTML |title=Brownfields Grant Fact Sheet: Fitchburg, MA &#124; Brownfields and Land Revitalization &#124; US EPA |publisher=Cfpub.epa.gov |access-date=February 1, 2012}}</ref> to help clean up hazardous substances on the site.

Cleanup<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.fitchburg.ma.us/news/20100315-Community%20Relations%20Plan.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=July 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005172647/http://www.ci.fitchburg.ma.us/news/20100315-Community%20Relations%20Plan.pdf |archive-date=October 5, 2011 }}</ref> of the Central Steam Plant started in 2010 and is ongoing as of July 2011. As of December 2015, the Fitchburg Central Steam Plant has been razed. The last structure to fall was its massive smokestack.