[CPEO-BIF] Foster’s Refrigeration site, Hudson, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Polluted Foster's site may qualify for funding

By John Mason. Columbia-Greene Media
Hudson Register-Star (NY)
August 12, 2014

The city of Hudson may have another chance at state funding to clean  
up what has been seen as its most contaminated site. Mayor William H.  
Hallenbeck Jr. told the Hudson Industrial Development Agency Monday  
that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has  
named the polluted former Foster’s Refrigeration parcel at 119 N.  
Second St. as one of the state's brownfield sites that could qualify  
for remediation aid.

Hallenbeck said he will be meeting with city Grantwriter John "Duke"  
Duchessi Wednesday, and will ask him whether the city qualifies, and  
if so, direct him to expedite the application.

The cleanup was ready to be done in 2007, with funds available, but  
was apparently halted by the effects of the recession on the state  
economy.
Asked for a briefing on the topic by City Treasurer Heather Campbell,  
the mayor called Foster's "a problematic area ... complex to clean up  
in a safe, effective way."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.registerstar.com/news/article_26eb81ea-21d4-11e4- 
a340-0019bb2963f4.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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