[CPEO-BIF] "Some unhappy with DEC over Waterpointe, " Queens, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Some unhappy with DEC over Waterpointe

by Ryan Brady
Queens Chronicle (NY)
November 30, 2017 


According to some in Whitestone, something smells bad at the Waterpointe brownfield cleanup site. And they’re not talking about the soil.

The Edgestone Group - which earlier this year completed a secondary remediation to remove unapproved contaminated fill dumped at the site when its previous owner had it — plans to and has a special permit to build 52 single-family homes there.

The development will feature a vapor intrusion depressurization system to keep residents safe from vapors from contaminants in the ground.

In September, the Department of Environmental Conservation changed the remediation method from a Track 2 residential cleanup to Track 4 restricted-residential-use protocol because fill had been placed at the site that did not meet cleanup objectives. Edgestone had requested the change.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.qchron.com/editions/north/some-unhappy-with-dec-over-waterpointe/article_af0d27a1-4400-51c4-8496-7960ac1744b2.html

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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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