[CPEO-BIF] "Toxic cleanup begins at Le Roy [New York] site"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic cleanup begins at Le Roy site — 45 years later

by Steve Orr,
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY)
May 5, 2015

Hey, here's progress - a sizable cleanup action has begun at the site  
of a notorious chemical spill south of Rochester.

And it only took 45 years to get off the ground.

The spill, which occurred during a train derailment in December 1970,  
deposited roughly 30,000 gallons of toxic solvents into the soil and  
groundwater of rural Le Roy, Genesee County.

The history of the government response to the spill - one of the  
largest trichloroethylene releases on record in New York state - has  
a torturous one filled with long, long delays and missteps.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2015/05/05/belated- 
toxic-spill-cleanup-begins/26933719/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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