2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:08:03 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Ozone Industries site, Queens, New York
 
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.

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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
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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