[CPEO-BIF] Raybestos/Raymark site 15 years later, Stratford, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Raymark Contamination Abatement Remains a Challenge

Part One of a Series: The federal government's 'Superfund' program  
has mitigated several contaminated sites in Stratford. However, many  
problem areas remain, including at Short Beach, the Shakespeare  
theatre property and residential and commercial property.
By Christopher Carroll
Stratford Patch (MA)
April 7, 2011

Thousands of shoppers weekly visit the popular "big box" retail  
complex at Ferry Boulevard.
But don't ask customers of Home Depot, Wal-Mart or Shaw's supermarket  
because many will not remember when the sprawling retail site was  
once off-limits due to the extreme level of asbestos and other  
contaminates located there.

It has been 15 years since the federally funded Superfund abatement  
project was completed at the former main manufacturing complex once  
operated by Raybestos/Raymark of Stratford. The company was a  
nationwide leader in brake products and parts for decades and a major  
town employer and taxpayer.


...

For the entire article, see
http://stratford.patch.com/articles/no-problems-reported-at-former- 
waste-dump


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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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