[CPEO-BIF] "Contaminated soil surfaces at old Pitney Bowes factory, " Stamford, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Contaminated soil surfaces at old Pitney Bowes factory

Jeff Morganteen
Stamford Advocate (CT)
August 16, 2011

STAMFORD -- State environmental officials and city firefighters on  
Tuesday helped contain contaminated soil that surfaced from a  
remediated plot in the South End once home to the Pitney Bowes factory.

Contaminated soil entered a sewer line after a construction crew dug  
into a remediated "brownfield" at the old Pitney Bowes manufacturing  
plant on Pacific Street, where the developer Building and Land  
Technologies is building condos, Public Health and Safety Director  
Bobby Valentine said. A brownfield is a piece of land that contains  
hazardous substances or pollutants.

Valentine stressed the soil did not threaten the air or water supply.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Contaminated-soil- 
surfaces-at-old-Pitney-Bowes-2074921.php

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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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