2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 07:26:11 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] End Zone toxic cleanup, Queens, New York
 
End Zone toxic rehab to run through fall

by Domenick Rafter
Queens Chronicle (NY)
September 5, 2013

The work to remove a toxic chemical from a former industrial storage site in Ozone Park is continuing, though the biggest part of the job is completed.

The project - to remove trichloroethylene, or TCE, a substance linked to some forms of cancer and problems of the central nervous system, from eight bays under the former Rockaway Beach Long Island Rail Road viaduct between 101st and 103rd avenues - began in June. The site was used by Ozone Industries from the 1970s through the 1990s to store aircraft parts.

According to Peter Guaraldi, a spokesman for End Zone, the "intrusive" work, including the soil excavation and off-site transport and disposal, drilling inside of bays, and outside air monitoring, was completed last week, within the estimated time frame set by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.qchron.com/editions/south/end-zone-toxic-rehab-to-run- through-fall/article_f7b1dbaf-04bf-5f4b-a36e-58e4cf4b79d0.html

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