[CPEO-BIF] Former manufactured gas plant site, Catskill, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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
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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