[CPEO-BIF] Testing planned at 4566 Broadway, Manhattan, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Testing at Contaminated Site in Inwood to Begin Before Spring

Testing of a contaminated site on Broadway and Nagle Avenue will be  
conducted by an environmental team this month.

By Carla Zanoni
DNAinfo (NY)
February 28, 2011

INWOOD - Testing at a contaminated site in Upper Manhattan is  
expected to begin this spring, according to a letter sent to  
Community Board 12 by the state’s Department of Health (DOH) and  
Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

A slew of environmental tests must be completed before a developer  
can move forward with a plan to turn 4566 Broadway into a two-story  
commercial building with underground parking.

The developer is charged with conducting those tests at the former  
1960s gas station-turned-parking-lot in 2005, because the site was  
deemed "contaminated and abandoned" otherwise known as a "Brownfield"  
by the DEH.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dnainfo.com/20110228/washington-heights-inwood/testing-at- 
contaminated-site-inwood-begin-before-spring

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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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