[CPEO-BIF] Papermaking-machine plant site, Sewall's Island, Watertown, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup of Sewall's Island going well

By ROBERT BRAUCHLE
Watertown Daily Times (NY)
MARCH 21, 2009

Lu Engineers expects to have Sewall's Island cleaned by the end of this 
year.

"We actually got pretty lucky," said Jacqueline S. Longton, city 
planner. "The island isn't as contaminated as they had thought."

Dating back to the 1860s, the island in the Black River between Water 
and Huntington streets housed a plant that manufactured papermaking 
machines. The island has been considered a brownfield since 1999, when 
the city received a $200,000 federal grant to study its redevelopment. 
The city received an additional $561,200 from the state in 2007 to clean 
the contaminated land.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20090321/NEWS03/303219966/-1/NEWS

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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