[CPEO-BIF] "Progress being made" at Lehigh Train Derailment site, LeRoy, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Five years after renewed interest in Lehigh Train Derailment site, EPA says cleanup progress being made

by Howard B. Owens 
Batavian (NY)
January 30, 2017

It's been five years since a site of a toxic chemical spill in Le Roy -- known as the Lehigh Train Derailment Site -- made the news as part of a media frenzy around reports of students at the high school developing strange, unexplained tics, but cleanup work has been ongoing since, according to a spokesman for the EPA.

In fact, good progress has been made and the end may be in sight for remediation, according to Michael Basile, who represents the Environmental Protection Agency in Buffalo. There's no firm timeline for completion of the work, but there have been two significant recent developments, he said.

First, last year some 300 pounds of trichloroethene (TCE) contaminated soil was removed from the area, he said. That removal effort is ongoing and will continue until testing shows TCE has been removed from the area. (CORRECTION: This should have read 300 pounds of TCE removed from the soil).

Second, a draft document on remediation options for contaminated groundwater has been completed and the EPA will pick a plan from those options for remediation sometime this year.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thebatavian.com/howard-b-owens/five-years-after-renewed-interest-in-lehigh-train-derailment-site-epa-says-cleanup

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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