[CPEO-BIF] Flintkote plant, Lockport, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State wants EPA to do creek cleanup

By Thomas J. Prohaska
Buffalo News
March 6, 2011
LOCKPORT — Pleading budgetary woes, the state Department of  
Environmental Conservation wants to turn the cleanup of the Eighteen  
Mile Creek corridor over to the federal government.

That provoked fears last week that the cleanup of contamination in  
and around the creek near the abandoned Flintkote plant in Lockport  
might be significantly delayed. The DEC was planning to do the work  
in 2012.

"It could be locked in a closet someplace for years," said County  
Legislator John Syracuse, R-Newfane. "The DEC already has the plan to  
clean it up. . . . We have a great opportunity to clean up a creek."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article359783.ece

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