[CPEO-BIF] Orangeburg Pipe site, Orangeburg, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Remediation planned at old Orangeburg pipe manufacturing site

Mid-Hudson News (NY)
July 16, 2012

ORANGEBURG - A more than 16 acre parcel that was once a portion of  
the Orangeburg Pipe company property on Route 303 in Orangeburg is  
going to be remediated for environmental pollution under the state’s  
Brownfield Cleanup Program.

The property, currently owned by FB Orangetown LLC c/o RD Management  
LLC of Manhattan and called Orangeburg Commons, has been determined  
to contain coal tar pitch volatiles and naphthalene. Pipe  
manufacturing began in the 1890s with that parcel reported to be used  
primarily for storage, but pipe not meeting specifications was also  
disposed of at the site.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2012/July/16/ 
Orbrg_pipe_remed-16Jul12.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>
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