[CPEO-BIF] Sunrise Highway commercial building, Rockville Centre, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEC plans site cleanup
Officials: There’s no threat to Sunrise businesses


By Brian Kacharaba
LI Herald (NY)
October 12, 2016

Underground contaminants left by previous tenants at a Rockville Centre commercial building still need to be cleaned up, though they pose no threat to the site’s current businesses, officials said.

A fact sheet released by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation last week announced that the department would investigate the parking lot behind the building at 486 Sunrise Highway, which houses the Flour Shoppe Café & Bakery and Sceptre Tours, an online travel agency, and had initiated a comment period on a draft investigation work plan that will run through Nov. 5.

The work plan was recently submitted to the DEC under New York’s Brownfield Cleanup Program. To be considered a brownfield site, a property must have levels of a contaminant that exceed environmental guidelines adopted by the DEC.

The building is owned by the Accomando family of BCA & Associates. Chris Accomando said he purchased it in 2011, and was not told about the environmental testing that needed to be done until after he closed on the property. The problem, he added, is underneath the parking lot, and he has volunteered to take part in the DEC cleanup program.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.liherald.com/stories/DEC-plans-site-cleanup,84614

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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