[CPEO-BIF] "Former Troy [New York] steel site cleanup continues"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Troy steel site cleanup continues

by Brian Nearing 
Albany Times-Union )NY)
January 3, 2018

An Oregon company is continuing a $1 million project to contain pollution at its former Troy steel fabrication plant that has been closed for more than a decade.

Esco Corp., of Portland, will be working at its former Steel Treaters property at 520 Campbell Ave., according to a notice Wednesday from the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

The company will build a underground containment system to keep underground pollution on the property from further spreading to adjoining properties. The system will also neutralize pollution already present on the Esco property.

Already, the company has had about 17 tons of contaminated soil excavated and removed for disposal.

The property has been vacant since the plant was demolished after being damaged in a 2005 fire.

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For the entire article, se
http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Former-Troy-steel-site-cleanup-continues-12470974.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>
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