[CPEO-BIF] "New life for 3 ex-brownfield sites in Newburgh, " New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New life for 3 ex-brownfield sites in Newburgh

By Leonard Sparks
Newburgh Times Herald-Record (NY)
December 10, 2013

CITY OF NEWBURGH - For decades, Provan Ford's truck repair and tanker- 
cleaning facility on Mill Street plagued the City of Newburgh with  
explosions, fires and discharges of potentially flammable products  
into the sewer system.

Then the 3.5-acre site, acquired by the city via tax foreclosure in  
1999, became another kind of problem: an unusable wasteland  
contaminated with carcinogens like benzene.

Three years ago, a cleanup effort by the state Department of  
Environmental Conservation-operated Environmental Restoration Program  
took a stab at rescuing the site. It appears to have worked.

Newburgh expects to complete the sale of Provan and two other former  
industrial sites to private companies next year.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20131210/NEWS/ 
312100319

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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