[CPEO-BIF] "DEC wants to stay the course on IBM cleanup, " Endicott, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEC wants to stay the course on IBM cleanup
The department is recommending that measures to fight the groundwater plume be continued

by John R. Roby
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
March 5, 2015


ENDICOTT – Ten years of stepped-up efforts to fight a toxic groundwater plume resulting from industrial contamination on the former IBM site in the village have paid off, the manager of the Superfund site told residents at a public hearing Thursday night.

So well, in fact, that New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is recommending that the measures be continued indefinitely.

“As a result of progress we’re making in the groundwater plume and the soil vapor plume, our proposed remedy for this offsite area is to essentially keep doing what we’ve been doing, because it seems to be working really well,” said Alex Czuhanich, engineering geologist with the DEC and the project manager for the IBM Endicott Superfund site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/2015/03/05/ibm-plume-hearing/24436337/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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