[CPEO-BIF] Ozone Industries site, Ozone Park, Queens, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Work begins at End Zone industrial site

by Domenick Rafter
Queens Chronicle (NY)
June 13, 2013

Work started this week on the controversial project to remove toxic  
chemicals from a former industrial site in Ozone Park.

The work along 100th Street between 101st and 103rd avenues will  
clean eight bays under the former Ozone Park LIRR station that were  
once used for storage by Ozone Industries, an aircraft parts  
manufacturer that operated out of an adjacent factory until the late  
1990s.

Ozone Industries placed drums in the ground below the bays that  
contained a chemical called trichloroethylene, or TCE, a substance  
linked to some forms of cancer and problems of the central nervous  
system. The chemical is used in aircraft manufacturing.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.qchron.com/editions/south/work-begins-at-end-zone- 
industrial-site/article_656dbf3b-d26b-5f5b-a776-6a00af9a26a0.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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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