[CPEO-BIF] End Zone/Ozone Industries TCE site, Queens, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ozone Park toxic site cleanup to begin next month, but questions remain

by Domenick Rafter
Queens Chronicle (NY)
April 11, 2013 

End Zone Industries, the company tasked with cleaning up dangerous chemicals at a former industrial site in Ozone Park, came to Community Board 9 on Tuesday to explain the process in which they will clean up the location under the former Rockaway Beach Long Island Rail Road line.

Representatives from the company received a healthy interrogation from concerned members of the board, including some questions that could not be answered immediately.

The site, located between 101st and 103rd avenues and 99th and 100th streets, is home to eight storage bays situated beneath the former Ozone Park LIRR station. When End Zone's predecessor company, Ozone Industries, was active in its adjacent factory in the late 20th century, it used the bays to store aircraft parts until 1998.

Today the bays are vacant, but the soil beneath them is contaminated with trichloroethene, or TCE, a chemical that is linked to cancer and disorders of the central nervous system.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.qchron.com/editions/south/ozone-park-toxic-site-cleanup-to-begin-next-month-but/article_941af4df-b41c-52f0-80cf-bc955a1b0cde.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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