[CPEO-BIF] Roxy Cleaners site , Rensselaer, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pollution control plan offered at former Rensselaer dry cleaners
Developer, state DEC looking at proposal for Rensselaer Roxy site

By Brian Nearing 
Albany Times-Union
April 26, 2017
 

Rensselaer - The owner of a polluted former Rensselaer dry cleaners will install a system to contain toxic vapors leaking out of the ground under a plan being considered by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

New York City-based developer Tim Bayly is looking to redevelop the former Roxy Cleaners, at 800 Broadway, near both the Amtrak train station and a new Hudson waterfront housing development.

DEC is proposing that Bayly be allowed to install a depressurization system and basement vapor barrier system for the property, which is contaminated with tetrachloroethene (PCE, also known as PERC), a known human carcinogen. Excavation or chemical treatment of tainted soil are not suitable solutions to the issue, DEC determined.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-business/article/Pollution-control-plan-offered-at-former-11102081.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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