[CPEO-BIF] Wellington Row, Albany, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Albany project put on state Superfund list
Wellington Row commercial development complex site tainted by chemicals

By BRIAN NEARING
Albany Times-Union (NY)
February 25, 2011

ALBANY -- Part of the "Wellington Row" property now being cleared for  
a commercial complex and 11-story office tower near the state Capitol  
has been added to the state Superfund pollution cleanup program.

Land at 67 Howard St. is contaminated with mercury and several  
carcinogenic volatile organic compounds left behind decades ago by  
the former Albany Laboratories, according to a Superfund notice from  
the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

The contaminated property is at the rear of Wellington Row, where  
developers have demolished all but the facades of five buildings,  
including the Wellington Hotel, and plan a complex that could include  
an 11-story office tower.

A cleanup at the site began in mid-2008, said DEC spokeswoman Lori  
Severino. While the pollution presents no current threat to public  
health, it could threaten workers involved in any future construction  
or "on-site ground-intrusive activities," the DEC notice said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Albany-project-put-on-state- 
Superfund-list-1029966.php


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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