2015 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 23:14:56 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Former manufactured gas plant site, Catskill, New York
 
DEC certifies cleanup at Catskill brownfield site

Mid-Hudson News (NY)
January 25, 2015

CATSKILL - The State Department of Environmental Conservation has determined that the cleanup requirements have been met to address coal tar contamination to the Catskill former manufactured gas plant site on Water Street Catskill.



Central Hudson Gas and Electric performed the cleanup with oversight from the DEC. The state agency has approved a final engineering report and issued a certificate of completion for the site.



Remediation included removal of 13,000 cubic yards of impacted soil down to an average depth of 17 feet below ground and the backfilling with clean soil.



Some 3,300 tons of impacted sediments were dredged from Catskill Creek adjacent to the site down to a depth of eight feet below the mud line.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2015/January/25/ CatskillMPG-25Jan15.htm

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Lenny Siegel
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