[CPEO-BIF] American Thermostat, South Cairo, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Superfund site back on tax rolls
County legislature votes in favor of American Thermostat plan

By Colin DeVries
Hudson-Catskill Newspaper
Catskill Daily Mail (NY)
March 22, 2011

CATSKILL - County lawmakers approved putting the American Thermostat  
superfund site in South Cairo back on the tax rolls after a buyer  
acquired two of the contaminated properties.

Greene County Realty, Inc. has purchased two properties along the  
State Route 23 corridor associated with the environmental  
contamination by American Thermostat, a defunct thermostat  
manufacturer which was found to be improperly dumping toxic chemical  
compounds down an abandoned septic system for many years.

In 1985 the company ceased operations at the site and filed for  
bankruptcy without fulfilling the agreement with the state to cleanup  
the site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thedailymail.net/articles/2011/03/22/news/ 
doc4d88214c1217f019371303.txt#share

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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