[CPEO-BIF] Water St. manufactured gas site, Catskill, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEC to hold session on Water St. brownfield

By Doron Tyler Antrim
Hudson-Catskill Newspapers (NY)
February 23, 2011

CATSKILL - A public informational meeting is scheduled for Thursday  
on Brownfield remediation efforts at the Water Street property where  
developers hope to build a raw bar and bistro.

The New York state Department of Environmental Conservation will host  
the informational meeting at 7 p.m. in the Catskill High School  
cafeteria.

The agency has approved a report from Central Hudson detailing the  
multi-year investigation of the site, at 125 Water Street, which used  
to be home to a gas manufacturing facility.

The report states that coal tar, a reddish brown to black oily liquid  
by-product which formed as a condensate as gas cooled during the  
manufacturing process, was found in soil samples on the site and the  
adjacent Union Mills property.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thedailymail.net/articles/2011/02/23/news/ 
doc4d64a2c0f3a29717799435.txt

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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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