[CPEO-BIF] Emerson cleanup plan debate, Ithaca, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Proposal for Emerson plant spurs debate

Kacey Deamer
The Ithacan (NY)
November 30, 2011

Ithaca’s mayor-elect has big plans for the Emerson Power Transmission  
facility, with a controversial proposal to develop housing at the  
polluted building located off Route 96B.

The Emerson plant has been vacant for a year. The incoming mayor,  
Svante Myrick, plans to turn the plant into a residential area, which  
some believe is hazardous because of contamination.

Svante Myrick, Ithaca's newly elected mayor, wants to develop the  
Emerson site into residential housing and the plant itself into a  
combined heat and power plant. However, the New York State Department  
of Environmental Conservation has determined that the area had been  
contaminated with trichloroethene, a recognized carcinogen.

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For the entire article, see
http://theithacan.org/18653/

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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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