New Haven recently unveiled design plans for a proposed public park on Ball Island in the Mill River district.

However, the city has not yet acquired the property, which is the site of the decommissioned English Station power plant that is highly contaminated with heavy metals, asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls, known as PCBs. While the rendered images of the proposed park depicted a scene of families picnicking, teens enjoying basketball and children learning to swim in the aquatic education center, the current site is far from that.

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