2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:43:29 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "New life for 3 ex-brownfield sites in Newburgh, " New York
 
New life for 3 ex-brownfield sites in Newburgh

By Leonard Sparks
Newburgh Times Herald-Record (NY)
December 10, 2013

CITY OF NEWBURGH - For decades, Provan Ford's truck repair and tanker- cleaning facility on Mill Street plagued the City of Newburgh with explosions, fires and discharges of potentially flammable products into the sewer system.

Then the 3.5-acre site, acquired by the city via tax foreclosure in 1999, became another kind of problem: an unusable wasteland contaminated with carcinogens like benzene.

Three years ago, a cleanup effort by the state Department of Environmental Conservation-operated Environmental Restoration Program took a stab at rescuing the site. It appears to have worked.

Newburgh expects to complete the sale of Provan and two other former industrial sites to private companies next year.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20131210/NEWS/ 312100319

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