[CPEO-BIF] Le Roy, New York TCE spill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

41 years later and no cleanup of Le Roy spill site

by STEVE ORR
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (NY)
April 1, 2012

One of the most remarkable environmental messes in local history was  
triggered 41 years ago when a train derailment dumped 200 tons of  
toxic chemicals on the porous bedrock of rural Genesee County.

It was the single largest spill on record in New York state of the  
human carcinogen known as trichloroethene, or TCE. It fouled 4 ½  
square miles - an area nearly as large as all of southeast Rochester,  
from Genesee Valley Park to the Inner Loop to the East Avenue Wegmans.

But after a brief emergency response, local officials walked away.  
State and federal government agencies charged with addressing  
environmental contamination overlooked the accident - for nearly 20  
years.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120401/NEWS01/304010004

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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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