[CPEO-BIF] End Zone toxic cleanup, Queens, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

End Zone toxic rehab to run through fall

by Domenick Rafter
Queens Chronicle (NY)
September 5, 2013

The work to remove a toxic chemical from a former industrial storage  
site in Ozone Park is continuing, though the biggest part of the job  
is completed.

The project - to remove trichloroethylene, or TCE, a substance linked  
to some forms of cancer and problems of the central nervous system,  
from eight bays under the former Rockaway Beach Long Island Rail Road  
viaduct between 101st and 103rd avenues - began in June. The site was  
used by Ozone Industries from the 1970s through the 1990s to store  
aircraft parts.

According to Peter Guaraldi, a spokesman for End Zone, the  
"intrusive" work, including the soil excavation and off-site  
transport and disposal, drilling inside of bays, and outside air  
monitoring, was completed last week, within the estimated time frame  
set by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.qchron.com/editions/south/end-zone-toxic-rehab-to-run- 
through-fall/article_f7b1dbaf-04bf-5f4b-a36e-58e4cf4b79d0.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
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