[CPEO-BIF] Former Flushing Industrial Park, Queens, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic Flushing site to be dredged

by Tess McRae
Queens Chronicle (NY)
July 11, 2013

A plot in Flushing sits vacant just off of College Point Boulevard  
near the Van Wyck Expressway and the Flushing River. The site of the  
former Flushing Industrial Park is toxic ground and has been for  
years but the state is hoping to turn that around by dredging out the  
waste and replacing it with clean fill.

Moderately contaminated areas toxic enough to cause concern but not  
enough to qualify for federal or state Superfund cleanup programs  
have been a problem in the city for years.

Hope came in 2003 when the state’s Brownfield Cleanup Program - a  
seven-year effort to turn the abandoned industrial sites into usable  
properties - was implemented.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.qchron.com/editions/north/toxic-flushing-site-to-be- 
dredged/article_6daa8be1-d249-55cc-b5d8-ae526ed4aaa9.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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