[CPEO-BIF] Cleanarama site, Colonie, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup lawsuit possible at site
Walgreens is under state pressure to fund removal of pollution

By Brian Nearing
Albany Times-Union (NY)
April 15, 2015


The state is planning steps to compel Walgreens, a national pharmacy chain, to support a state-proposed $500,000 cleanup of underground chemical pollution from a former dry cleaners at a busy Loudonville intersection.

Walgreens has owned the property, a vacant one-acre lot near Kimberly Plaza at the corner of Osborne and Albany Shaker roads, since 2008. It wanted to build a pharmacy at the site.

In February, the state Department of Environmental Conservation released a plan to clean unsafe levels of a dry-cleaning solvent - tetrachloroethene (PCE) - and its harmful byproducts, trichloroethene (TCE) and dichloroethene (DCE). DEC had found the chemicals in 2003, long before Walgreens bought the property.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Cleanup-lawsuit-possible-at-site-6202800.php

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