[CPEO-BIF] "Schumer urges EPA to buy out Lockport [New York] homeowners hit by flooding"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Schumer urges EPA to buy out Lockport homeowners hit by flooding
Runoff from toxic site inundated 6 homes

By Thomas Prohaska
Buffalo News (NY)
July 17, 2013

LOCKPORT - U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer threw his weight behind the  
effort to help homeowners on Lockport's Water Street, releasing a  
letter Tuesday to the Environmental Protection Agency urging the move.

Michael Basile, the EPA's local spokesman, said a remedial action  
plan that may include relocating the six families on the street will  
be released in about three weeks.

"The relocation of those residents is a possibility," he said Tuesday.

"I've always thought in the back of my mind that might be a viable  
option," Mayor Michael W. Tucker said. "It would be up to the  
residents over there as to whether they want to take part."

Basile said the EPA also is considering a soil barrier to protect the  
homes and the backyards from flooding from Eighteen Mile Creek. The  
homes back up to a section of the creek that borders the old  
Flintkote building materials plant, abandoned since a fire more than  
40 years ago.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/lockport/schumer-urges-epa-to- 
buy-out-lockport-homeowners-20130716

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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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