[CPEO-BIF] Schweizer Aircraft property, Big Flats, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report pinpoints Schweizer pollution
Company will come up with cleanup plan; neighbors likely safe.

By G. Jeffrey Aaron
Elmira Star-Gazette (NY)
September 4, 2007

Nine contaminants ranging from heavy metals to polychlorinated biphenyls 
were discovered during the ongoing investigation into the level of soil 
and groundwater contamination at the Schweizer Aircraft Corp. property 
in Big Flats.

Some of the tainted groundwater, polluted with low levels of several 
volatile organic compounds, has moved a short distance off Schweizer's 
property and onto the adjoining Elmira-Corning Regional Airport 
property. But because of the declining levels of those compounds, the 
short distance they have moved from the source and the restricted use of 
the airport property, potential exposure to the public is unlikely, the 
state Department of Environmental Conservation said.

Schweizer Aircraft was acquired by Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. in 2004. The 
Connecticut-based company then submitted an application to the DEC to 
enter the state's Brownfield Cleanup Program.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070904/NEWS01/709040308
--


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>
http://www.cpeo.org

_______________________________________________
Brownfields mailing list
Brownfields@list.cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/brownfields