[CPEO-BIF] Sconondoa Street site, Oneida, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State plans to clean up brownfield site on Sconondoa Street in Oneida

By Nick Will

Oneida Dispatch (NY)
February 18, 2013

ONEIDA - The local brownfield site at 210 Sconondoa St. that is  
contaminated with oil is being looked at for Department of  
Environmental Conservation for remediation.



A brownfield site is any location that the state determines would be  
difficult to reuse or redevelop because of contaminants. Through the  
Environmental Restoration Program (ERP) municipalities are reimbursed  
for investigations and clean-ups at sites they own.



The site used to be the location of the Oneida Sconondoa Street  
Apartments and is about quarter-acre in size. The building was  
vacated in the late 1990âs and the city owns the property in leu of  
unpaid taxes. The building was being used as a training space for  
fire and rescue services, but is in such poor condition that itâs no  
longer used.



The cityâs remediation project on the site began in 2001. Several  
underground fuel storage tanks were removed from the property in  
2002. Pockets of petroleum contamination were identified on the  
property in the soil and groundwater by the DEC in 2004. The  
contaminant plume extends 5.100 square feet on the property. In 2006,  
the site was approved for the ERP.

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For the entire article, see
http://oneidadispatch.com/articles/2013/02/18/news/ 
doc5122c935a39b3914080903.txt

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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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