[CPEO-BIF] Rome Cable site, Rome, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rome Cable site cleanup hailed


By ROBERT BRAUCHLE
Utica Observer-Dispatch (NY)
November 25, 2010

ROME - A 50-acre site once thought to contain contamination from a 
defunct manufacturing plant is now being hailed as a success story.

...

State Department of Environmental Conservation records show that fuel 
tanks, pits, drums of waste and other petroleum and hazardous 
substances, along with the cleaning solvent trichloral ethylene were 
found on the site. The company coated and spun wire in a number of 
buildings on the property prior to filing for bankruptcy and liquidating 
its assets in 2003.

The cleanup will free up about 400,000 square-feet on the site to become 
available for mixed-use commercial space, according to the release.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.uticaod.com/latestnews/x1743700855/Rome-Cable-site-cleanup-hailed

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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
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