[CPEO-BIF] PCBs at Railroad Avenue site, Beacon Falls, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental testing finds PCBs

by Luke Marshall
Naugatuck Citizens-New (CT)
October 21, 2016 

BEACON FALLS — An ongoing environmental assessment of a brownfield on Railroad Avenue has shown that the land is more contaminated than officials had hoped.

The town received a $78,000 grant in February from the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development’s Brownfield Remediation Program to pay for environmental testing of the land and vacant building at 100 Railroad Ave.

The testing started in September and the initial results showed some small contaminants that could easily be contained, said First Selectman Christopher Bielik, who provided an update on the testing to local, state and federal officials last week.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mycitizensnews.com/news/2016/10/environmental-testing-finds-pcbs/

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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