2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:14:53 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] PCE site, Roosevelt, New York
 
Roosevelt residents worried over brownfield site

by AISHA AL-MUSLIM
Long Island Newsday (NY)
November 11, 2013

Some Roosevelt residents, churchgoers and community advocates are concerned that a hazardous chemical found in the hamlet could have environmental and health repercussions.

The brownfield site, at 20 W. Centennial Ave., was used by various uniform and linen supply companies and was listed on the state Department of Environmental Conservation's registry of inactive hazardous waste sites in July 2005.

"We don't want people to have to live with this if there is a chance that they are getting sick," said Sharisse Carter, project coordinator of environmental justice for Choice For All, a local nonprofit group that hosted a community meeting about the site last month. "Those things that we can't see -- what is in our water, what is in the air -- are important."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/towns/roosevelt-residents-worried- over-brownfield-site-1.6413264

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