[CPEO-BIF] Kings Park solar farm, Suffolk County, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

County eyes Kings Park brownfield for solar farm

by Joe Darrow
Times of Smithtown (NY)
August 7, 2008

As part of his Brownfields to Solar Fields initiative, County Executive 
Steve Levy has offered LIPA a list of potential sites for a solar-panel 
system, and among them are 25 acres of Kings Park land off Old Northport 
Road.

For years the Kings Park Civic Association has pushed the county to 
clean and reuse these acres, called the Steck property, a brownfield 
after having been used as an illegal dumping ground. The parcels are 
home to no structures, just scattered truck parts, trailer bodies and 
abandoned machinery, surrounded by a chain link fence collapsing in 
places, a Levy spokesman said.

While construction and demolition debris is apparent, "nobody knows for 
sure what is buried there," Kings Park Civic Association President Mike 
Rosato said. "But it's a very, very dangerous landfill."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesofsmithtown.com/Articles-i-2008-08-07-73620.113114_County_eyes_Kings_Park_brownfield_for_solar_farm.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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