2017 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 15:13:24 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Al Tech Specialty Steel site, Dunkirk, New York
 
Former steel plant more contaminated than anticipated
Undevelopable

by NICOLE GUGINO
Dunkirk Evening Observer (NY)
December 3, 2017

Sometimes when you go digging, you find buried treasure. Not so the case for the Lucas Avenue Superfund site in the city of Dunkirk. 

At a recent Department of Public Works Committee meeting, City DPW Director Randy Woodbury told Common Council members the contamination of the former Al Tech Specialty Steel plant was the “worse than they anticipated.”

“I go to their meetings, of course, it’s a (Department of Environmental Conservation) project, it’s $5 million for remediation on that brownfield. Even after they’ve done $5 million, it’s not shovel-ready brownfield. The contamination was quite severe there, but it’s going to be protected, the contamination will be sealed in the ground,” Woodbury said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.observertoday.com/news/page-one/2017/12/former-steel-plant-more-contaminated-than-anticipated/

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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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