[CPEO-BIF] West Shore contaminaition, Staten Island, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

46 reasons why Staten Island's West Shore development is problematic

By Mark D. Stein
Staten Island Advance (NY)
August 17, 2013

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - WEST SHORE - The Staten Island Economic  
Development Corporation (SIEDC) has come up with a few reasons why  
large parcels of the West Shore remain idle. Forty-six reasons,  
actually.

For the past eight years, the organization has been at the forefront  
of Brownfield Redevelopment on Staten Island, it said in a release  
last week. The term Brownfield comes from the federal government’s  
description for land contaminated from past industrial use.

"We have surveyed every site, spoken with every property owner,  
documented every contaminant, and attempted to assist every property  
owner in securing funds to clean-up their site," the SIEDC said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.silive.com/westshore/index.ssf/ 
2013/08/46_reasons_why_staten_islands.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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