[CPEO-BIF] Ideal Cleaners site, Endicott, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Soil cleanup near for Endicott site

By William Moyer
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
April 26, 2009

ENDICOTT - An estimated $4 million cleanup of the contaminated soil at a 
former dry cleaning site, using a process known as In-Situ Thermal 
Desorption, is expected to begin by the end of May.

After a test late last year showed the process can remove 99 percent of 
the estimated 500 pounds of tetrachloroethene left in the ground from , 
the state Department of Environmental Conservation approved the process 
for the entire property between Jackson and Arthur avenues, south of 
North Street.

The quarter-acre site should be cleaned by early 2010, said Michael 
Maloney, of IBM Energy & Environment Communications.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20090426/NEWS01/904260387

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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>
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