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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 14:56:57 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Community demands developers complete original cleanup agreement at Waterpointe site in Whitestone, " Queens, New York
 
Community demands developers complete original cleanup agreement at Waterpointe site in Whitestone

By Suzanne Monteverdi 
QNS (Queens, New York)
December 20, 2017 
 

Recent developments in the cleanup plans of a controversial Whitestone residential site have certain community members crying foul.

The 18-acre site at 151-45 Sixth Road called Waterpointe, which was formerly an industrial zone, has been a topic of concern in the neighborhood for over a decade. Edgestone Group LLC, the site’s current owner, is working to remediate the site — which is covered with toxic soil — under the oversight of the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) through the voluntary Brownfield Cleanup Program.

Edgestone purchased the land in 2012 for $11 million and originally sought to build 97 two-family townhouse homes and nine additional single-family houses at the site. However, the developers changed their plans to 52 single-family homes after protests from the community.


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For the entire article, see
http://qns.com/story/2017/12/19/community-demands-developers-complete-original-cleanup-agreement-waterpointe-site-whitestone/

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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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