[CPEO-BIF] Echo Lake Brownfield, Watertown, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Echo Lake Brownfield responds to concerns

By James Perucci
Watertown Town Times (CT)
July 23, 2009

Echo Lake Brownfield addressed the concerns of residents and the 
Planning & Zoning Commission during a continuation of the public hearing 
for its application on Wednesday, July 15.

....

"The DEP may choose or not choose to have certain contaminants removed," 
Atty. Wellington said. "It's called disruption; the DEP prefers to not 
have materials disrupted if they are not causing or providing 
contamination."

Atty. Wellington further stated that the DEP has told ELB that they are 
"not going to put fill in there" until the site has been cleaned and 
that fact has been shown to the DEP.

"PCB's [poly chlorinated bithenyls] will most likely have to be removed, 
petroleum contaminants, there may be hotspots they want removed," said 
Atty. Wellington. "There may be other contaminants below standards the 
DEP wants left in place."

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20348987&BRD=1379&PAG=461&dept_id=162906&rfi=6

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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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