[CPEO-BIF] Jewett White Lead Factory, Staten Island, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to clean soil of former Staten Island lead factory

By Deborah E. Young
Staten Island Advance (NY)
March 6, 2012


STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In the three years since trucks began kicking  
up dust in the the vacant Port Richmond lot that was once home to the  
Jewett White Lead Factory, much has been learned about what exactly  
was in that dust: Lead concentrations as high as 240,000 ppm -- in  
other words, 24 percent lead.

After an outcry by community advocates and pressure from elected  
officials, the construction vehicles were ordered out and the site  
sealed off. Surveys, studies and hearings got under way.

Now the federal Environmental Protection Agency has set forth a  
sweeping plan to excavate the contaminated soil at 2000 Richmond  
Terr. and haul it away from Staten Island to a designated landfill.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/03/ 
epa_to_clean_soil_of_former_st.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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