[CPEO-BIF] "Gowanus Land That Housed Dodgers Baseball Stadium Slated for Toxic Cleanup, " Brooklyn, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Gowanus Land That Housed Dodgers Baseball Stadium Slated for Toxic Cleanup

By Caroline Spivack 
dna info (NY)
August 17, 2017

GOWANUS - A contaminated Con Edison site that once housed a 19th century baseball stadium is finally slated for an environmental cleanup, officials with the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced.

Con Edison's Yard Service Center - bound by First and Third streets and Third and Fourth avenues - will undergo a cleanse as part of the state's Brownfield Cleanup Program, which gives developers tax breaks in exchange for reviving polluted land.

State officials are taking public comment through Sept. 8 on how to investigate the site's contamination.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170817/gowanus/brooklyn-dodgers-brownfield-cleanup-222-first-street-con-edison

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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