[CPEO-BIF] State Superfund for Greenpoint (Brooklyn, NY) chlorinated solvent plumes

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Superfund to pay for Greenpoint cleanup

By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper (NY)
January 29, 2009

Greenpoint is getting ready to get clean.

The Department of Environmental Conservation has placed three polluted 
North Brooklyn locations on the state Superfund, setting in motion a 
government-financed cleanup of contaminants that may put neighbors at 
risk of cancer and other health problems.

The state is preparing to remove chlorinated solvents - which are often 
by-products of metal cleaning and dry cleaning - from the soil beneath a 
long-closed dry cleaner at 364 Richardson St. and Acme Architectural 
Products, which occupies an entire city block bounded by Anthony Street, 
Lombardy Street, Porter Avenue and Vandervoort Avenue (the site is 
technically two Superfund sites).

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/4/32_4_bm_superfund.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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