[CPEO-BIF] Town of Tonawanda (NY) townhouses - residential standards

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Townhouse developer plans cleanup

By Janice L. Habuda
Buffalo News (NY)
May 1, 2012

Additional environmental testing and, ultimately, remediation are  
planned for a Town of Tonawanda waterfront site targeted for a high- 
end townhouse development.
Giuseppe Holdings LLC of Kenmore has entered into a brownfield  
cleanup agreement for 4630 River Road with the state Department of  
Environmental Conservation, ensuring the site will meet residential  
standards.
By participating in the DEC’s voluntary program, the developer will  
be eligible for tax credits for the site’s cleanup and redevelopment  
into luxury townhouses and boat docks.
Part of the 3.5-acre site along the Niagara River, half of which is  
underwater, had contained a large storm water retention pond used by  
United Refining, formerly Ashland Petroleum Co., until the early  
1980s. An earlier remediation, completed in 1997, brought the site up  
to commercial-use standards.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/tonawanda/article836253.ece

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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