[CPEO-BIF] Loudon Plaza dry cleaners plume, Albany, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State eyes toxic site DEC to monitor hazardous chemicals near Loudon  
Plaza

By Brian Nearing
Albany Times Union (NY)
February 2, 2015

Albany - An underground plume of dangerous dry-cleaning chemicals  
from beneath a strip mall is not threatening the nearby Memorial  
Hospital or an apartment complex, according to the state Department  
of Environmental Conservation.

The DEC is proposing a $1.4 million plan to control and monitor  
unsafe levels of a dry-cleaning solvent - tetrachloroethene - and  
byproducts trichloroethene, dichloroethene and vinyl chloride in  
groundwater and soil at Loudon Plaza, 350 Northern Blvd., according  
to a DEC notice issued last week.

…

The former Loudon Dry Cleaners and Kem Cleaners operated at the  
property from 1954 to 1997. Kem Cleaners converted to "drop-off"  
service only in 1997, according to DEC. The site was added to the  
state Superfund pollution cleanup program in 2011.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/State-eyes-toxic-site-6057542.php

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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
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