[CPEO-BIF] "Brownfield project plan alarms Alplaus [New York] residents"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield project plan alarms Alplaus residents
Critics say hamlet's idyllic atmosphere is at risk from brownfield building project

By Paul Nelson 
Laredo Morning Times
September 25, 2017
 
Glenville - Sue Breslin got choked up and had to stop to compose herself as she reflected on her move from Latham to Alplaus three years ago.

"I came for the water and the family," said Breslin, 69, a retired educator. "It's 20 miles from Latham and it's three decades (behind) the rest of the world right now. It's a calm place to live.”

She and many of her neighbors in this quiet hamlet fear the serenity they enjoy would be forever changed by a proposal from Prime Mohawk LLC of Cohoes to convert a roughly 84-acre parcel along the Mohawk River and on a nearby brownfield site at Mohawk Avenue and Maritime Drive into a 228-unit development.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lmtonline.com/local/article/Brownfield-project-plan-alarms-Alplaus-residents-12225361.php

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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