[CPEO-BIF] Palmyra Former Manufactured Gas Plant, Palmyra, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plan in place to clean up brownfield


By Billie Rae Walker, reporter
GateHouse News Service
March 4, 2011

Palmyra, N.Y. - A meeting with representatives of the New York State  
Department of Environmental Conservation regarding mitigation of a . 
89-acre brownfield area where the NYSEG - Palmyra Former Manufactured  
Gas Plant located on Park Drive in the village was recently attended  
by Mayor Vicky Daly.
Only one resident of Park Drive and the owner of a commercial  
property across the street attended, although approximately 800  
letters notifying residents, officials, and the media had been sent out.

The site is one of about 200 former MGP sites across the state. The  
Palmyra plant was operated by NYSEG’s predecessor companies from 1857  
to 1910. On site gas was manufactured by heating coal. Freshly- 
manufactured gas had to be cooled and its impurities removed before  
it could be used. A coal tar resulted from these processes, some of  
which was released to the environment causing the contamination.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.waynepost.com/latestnews/x407383680/Plan-in-place-to-clean- 
up-brownfield

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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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