[CPEO-BIF] "Official: DEC communicated with residents about Air Brake contamination, " Watertown, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Official: DEC communicated with residents about Air Brake contamination

By CRAIG FOX
WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES (NY)
August 25, 2012


A state Department of Environmental Conservation spokeswoman has  
defended the way agency officials communicated with the public about  
the contamination that was dumped from the former New York Air Brake  
site on Starbuck Avenue.

On Friday, DEC spokeswoman Charleissa King wrote in an email message  
that the agency held a series of meetings before a soil investigation  
of the Air Brake site and the surrounding neighborhood was conducted  
in 2008. DEC also held a meeting to release its findings, she said.

The 2008 study determined unacceptable levels of trichloroethylene,  
or TCE - an industrial solvent used at the New York Air Brake  
facility decades ago - was found in four nearby buildings and a home  
at 431 Hoard St.

"The DEC did extensive outreach to the community," Ms. King wrote.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20120825/NEWS03/708259876

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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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