[CPEO-BIF] Mendon, New York - development on a "midnight" dump

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Dump worries go on and on

A history of plodding cleanup goes back decades; toxicity lingers as 
area issue

Steve Orr
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (NY)
July 1, 2007

When workers began clearing the earth for a 2005 Mendon subdivision 
expansion, the grader's huge blade encountered more than soil.

"All of a sudden it was scraping a big wide blue, red and purple smear," 
said Lt. Michael Van Durme of the state Department of Environmental 
Conservation.

DEC investigators found more than 100 drums of paint and industrial 
solvents buried in a former gravel pit next to the Rolling Plains 
development.

The hazardous waste had been hidden there about 35 years earlier, an 
example of "midnight dumping" - surreptitious disposal of toxic 
substances in illicit dumps in rural areas around Rochester. Many of 
those sites await final government-directed cleanup decades after 
discovery, raising health concerns among residents and experts.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070701/NEWS01/707010338/1002/NEWS

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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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