[CPEO-BIF] Middleville Tannery Dump, Norway, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Area around Middleville Tannery Dump deemed safe


By AMANDA FRIES
Utica Observer-Dispatch (NY)
August 24, 2013 

NORWAY - Concern of contaminated groundwater in the area has been dispelled.

State Department of Health spokesman Jeffrey Hammond said the state Department of Environmental Conservation collected soil, sediment, surface water and groundwater samples from the Middleville Tannery Dump in Norway in December 2012 and January 2013.

"A review of the samples ... showed there is no evidence that groundwater contamination is moving offsite," Hammond said in an email.

The Military Road site previously had been investigated by the DEC in 1989 and then by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2005. The DEC study found soil, stream and stream sediment in the area contaminated with chromium.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.uticaod.com/latestnews/x1367232548/Area-around-Middleville-Tannery-Dump-deemed-safe

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