2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:02:56 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] South Hill wants faster cleanup (Ithaca, NY)
 
South Hill association pushes for quicker pollution cleanup
City not doing enough to help, president says

By Krisy Gashler
Ithaca Journal (NY)
August 23, 2009


ITHACA -- The president of the South Hill Civic Association is pleading with city leaders for more help in the fight to rid South Hill of toxic pollution.

Association president John Graves said he lives half-a-block from the Columbia Street manhole that registered highest for toxic vapors such as trichloroethylene (TCE) in 2007 testing by Emerson Power Transmission. Yet almost two years later, Graves said that neither he nor any of his neighbors have been contacted to have their houses tested for potential contamination.

"There is no sense of urgency," Graves wrote in a statement to Common Council on behalf of the civic association. "Every time Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Health set goals to start another phase on South Hill, it takes a year longer than projected. One year to the DEC and DOH turns out to be two years for South Hill residents."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20090823/NEWS01/908230347/1126/South+Hill+association+pushes+for+quicker+pollution+cleanup

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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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