[CPEO-BIF] Former AlTech Steel plant, Dunkirk, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

TEAR DOWN: Former AlTech Steel Lucas Avenue plant expected to be gone  
by year’s end


By GIB SNYDER
Dunkirk Observer (NY)
February 9, 2014

It seems like it was always there looming in the background.

If it had eyes, the Lucas Avenue Plant that housed some manufacturing  
operations of the former AlTech Specialty Steel company would have  
seen the area's athletes playing over the years at the fields across  
the street.

A public hearing on the LAP's future was held in October 2012 by the  
state Department of Environmental Conservation at Dunkirk High  
School. At that time, DEC officials said the building would come down  
in 2014.

It was explained then there were three choices for the site, with the  
first being to do nothing. Second would be removing all the  
contaminated soil to allow for unlimited reuse at an estimated cost  
of $17.5 million. Third was restoration for industrial or commercial  
reuse, which is the plan proposed. This would cost an estimated $4.6  
million and remove what is considered hazardous waste.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.observertoday.com/page/content.detail/id/593834/TEAR-DOWN-- 
Former-AlTech-Steel.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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