[CPEO-BIF] "Environmental Cleanup Finished at Gowanus Canal High-Rise Site, " Brooklyn, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental Cleanup Finished at Gowanus Canal High-Rise Site


By Leslie Albrecht
DNA Info
November 4, 2015 

GOWANUS - The formerly contaminated land that's home to a residential high-rise overlooking the Gowanus Canal has been given a clean bill of health by state officials.

The state's Department of Environmental Conservation announced Oct. 30 that developer Lightstone Group has completed an environmental cleanup at 365 Bond St., the rental complex scheduled to open this winter.

"The site is 100 percent clean, it's 100 percent safe, and it's been certified as such,” said Lightstone's senior vice president of development, Scott Avram. "There are no contaminants and no environmental risk, and it's ready for people to occupy."

Lightstone cleaned up the former industrial site as part of the state's Brownfield Cleanup Program, which gives developers tax breaks in exchange for cleaning and then developing polluted land.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20151104/gowanus/environmental-cleanup-finished-at-gowanus-canal-high-rise-site

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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
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