[CPEO-BIF] General Motors assembly plant site, Tarrytown, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Next Phase of the GM Clean Up Nears End of Comment Period

Tonight marks the public hearing in response to the DEC plans for  
dredging river sediment and the land engineering to be required of a  
new, yet to be named, developer.

By Krista Madsen
Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch (NY)
March 22, 2012

You really only get a sense of the magnitude of the GM site from  
above. Barring easy access to a helicopter, there's the aerial  
photograph-turned-map in the latest State Department of Environmental  
Conservation clean up proposal, which is pictured, in part, here.

Before the massive development project gets going - Village officials  
still wait with much anticipation for the announcement of a narrowed  
selection of bidders from GM from a pool of five to six applicants  
(according to Village Administrator Anthony Giaccio) - there is the  
massive clean up. “Brownfield” is a term we of the post-industrial  
waterfront world have come to know well in various developments from  
Hudson Harbor to the coming River's Edge.

Despite the bad label, "based on the findings of the investigation,  
NYSDEC in consultation with the New York State Department of Health  
(NYSDOH) has determined that the site does not pose a significant  
threat." Once the area has been sufficiently dredged, scoured and  
capped, the allowable uses for the development are limited to  
commerical and restricted residence (of common ownership, whose  
tenants would supposedly not go digging in their backyard gardens).




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For the entire article, see
http://tarrytown.patch.com/articles/next-phase-of-the-gm-clean-up- 
nears-end-of-comment-period

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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
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