[CPEO-BIF] Rome Cable site, Utica, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Agency overseeing cleanup at industrial site


By TORY N. PARRISH
Utica Observer Dispatch (NY)
April 20, 2007

The Oneida County Industrial Development Agency is overseeing the 
cleanup of an industrial site in Rome where contamination has been found.

The 55-acre site was formerly occupied by Rome Cable, which filed for 
bankruptcy and closed in 2003, at Ridge and South Jay streets.

"We're cleaning it up so that we can bring online a piece of 
contaminated old industrial land back into industrial use by the 
community," said Shawna Papale, executive director of the development 
agency.

...

Trichloroethylene, a cleaning solvent, was found to extend to areas 
between South Jay and Henry streets on that portion of property, said 
Paul Romano, senior managing engineer with Shumaker Consulting 
Engineering and Land Surveying P.C., a firm in Utica conducting the site 
evaluations and cleanup.

Testing to begin

Thursday, the development agency's board authorized Shumaker to proceed 
with vapor testing of four to six houses and an office building near the 
affected areas.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/BUS/704200337/1052

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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