2017 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 16:28:50 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Kenco Chemical site, Glenville, New York
 
Sunnyside neighborhood water extension finished
$2 million cost coming from state Superfund program

by Stephen Williams 
Daily Gazette (NY)
October 31, 2017

GLENVILLE — Work to bring public water to about 100 homes in the path of a contaminated brownfield site's underground plume is complete, the state Department of Environmental Conservation said Tuesday.

The $2 million project has brought town water to the Sunnyside Gardens-Sunnyside Road neighborhood, which is just south where the former Kenco Chemical Company on Freemans Bridge Road left groundwater contamination that has spread.

The water line extension work began in 2015 after it was determined contaminants from the Kenco site had spread to the groundwater at the northern end of the neighborhood. Residents were told they should stop using their wells. A separate ongoing DEC study is looking at ways to remediate the contamination.

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For the entire article, see
https://dailygazette.com/article/2017/10/31/sunnyside-neighborhood-water-extension-finished

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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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