[CPEO-BIF] Lawrence Aviation,

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

TOXIC-CLOUD NIGHTMARE

By KIERAN CROWLEY and SELIM ALGAR
New York Post
September 9, 2006

A pollution dump that once sent a green, toxic cloud wafting toward a 
Long Island village is still a potential health threat, officials 
charged yesterday after indicting the owner.

Gerald Cohen, 72, owner of Lawrence Aviation Industries in Port 
Jefferson Station, was arrested Thursday on a federal criminal 
indictment charging him with illegally storing more than 11 tons of 
corrosive, hazardous waste at his business. Noxious vapors could seep 
into nearby homes and a local high school, officials said.

...

Inspectors for the EPA - who are proposing a $24 million cleanup project 
to end the threat - have tested the basements of Port Jefferson HS and 
25 private homes but have not yet found any toxic fumes.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/toxic_cloud__nightmare_regionalnews_kieran_crowley_and_selim_algar.htm
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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