[CPEO-BIF] Ozone Industries site, Queens, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Ozone Industries site is closer to a cleanup

by Lisa Fogarty
Queens Chronicle (NY)
March 18, 2010

The state Department of Environmental Conservation released a Record of 
Decision this week to begin a massive clean-up project at a site in 
Ozone Park where the presence of hazardous waste and known carcinogens 
pose a significant threat to human health, according to DEC.

The state Superfund project will target the former home of Ozone 
Industries, an aircraft parts manufacturer that rented several bays 
between 101st and 103rd avenues between 99th and 100th streets and used 
them to store hydraulic fluids, scrap metal chips and spent 
trichloroethylene, or TCE.

...

To eliminate or mitigate the threat, the DEC plans to excavate the 
contaminated shallow soils and construct and operate a soil vapor 
extraction system and a sub-slab depressurization system in the disposal 
area.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20417140&BRD=2731&PAG=461&dept_id=574908&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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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