| From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Fri, 6 May 2016 00:02:44 -0700 (PDT) |
| Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
| Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] "Endicott [New York] TCE site cleaned, ready for sale" |
Endicott TCE site cleaned, ready for sale by Tom Wilber Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY) May 5, 2016 After a successful cleanup to remove TCE pollution, a small industrial site in Endicott owned by Broome County is ready to go back on the tax rolls. The $440,000 effort was funded mostly by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the federal Environmental Protection Agency, with Broome County contributing $6,000. The five-year effort at 312 Maple St. included extensive excavation to remove contaminated soil. Officials also used bio-remediation — injecting the ground with a food grade material that encouraged micro-organisms to speed the breakdown of trichloroethylene, or TCE, into harmless elements. … For the entire article, see http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/2016/05/05/endicott-tce-site-cleaned-ready-sale/83975576/ -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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