| From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:33:05 -0800 (PST) |
| Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
| Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Former Adirondack Steel mill, Colonie, New York |
$6.1M more to clean ex-mill site Third effort needed to restore former Adirondack Steel land By Brian Nearing Albany Times-Union (NY) February 11, 2015 Colonie - More toxic PCBs will be removed from the polluted former Adirondack Steel mill in the third taxpayer-subsidized cleanup going back to the 1990s, with a new owner eyeing plans to redevelop the site as an industrial park. The state Department of Environmental Conservation is planning a $6.1 million project to remove PCB-tainted soil from the former mill and forge, which closed in the late 1980s and deteriorated into a hulking eyesore off Watervliet Shaker Road near the border with Watervliet. More than $2 million has already been spent on two earlier pollution cleanups of the 38-acre property by DEC and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. ... For the entire article, see http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/6-1M-more-to-clean-ex-mill-site-6076155.php -- 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 http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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