[CPEO-BIF] Brownfields in New York State's Southern Tier

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfields dot Southern Tier landscape

by Amanda Renko 
Elmira Star-Gazette (NY)
May 12, 2017


Beneath several properties in Chemung and Steuben counties lingers contaminated soil from former manufacturing operations and chemical leaks.

Brownfields - properties where contaminants exceed health-based or environmental standards — dot the landscape of an area long supported by manufacturing operations, leaving the New York Department of Environmental Conservation to examine the remnants.

In early May, the DEC announced a public meeting for interim remedial measures at a portion of the Elmira High School property, which sits on top of a former manufacturing site - the latest in a string of DEC announcements about contaminated properties in the area.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.stargazette.com/story/news/local/2017/05/12/brownfields-dot-southern-tier-landscape/319966001/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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