[CPEO-BIF] "Extensive pollution persists at Ithaca's [New York] two most toxic sites"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Extensive pollution persists at Ithaca's two most toxic sites

By Nick Reynolds
Ithaca.com (NY)
April 3, 2018

The City of Ithaca’s future might be bright, but this month city officials were served with two stark reminders that it’s far from leaving behind its toxic past.

Within several days of each other, the City of Ithaca received updates on a pair of the city’s most polluted sites at Ithaca Falls and at the former Morse Chain factory, each showing levels of pollutants that, despite past cleanup efforts, have remained incredibly high. At Ithaca Falls, where lead contamination has persisted even after millions of dollars were spent over two decades of cleanup efforts, dangerous levels of contamination were recently detected on the gorge floor (a popular tourist destination) while, at the 60-acre factory complex that previously served as home to Morse Chain, the New York State Department of Conservation recently wrapped up a survey of current levels of contamination at the former industrial facility, which predictably, have stayed at high levels. In the past, the factory had been attributed to the introduction of extensive levels of pollutants in the neighborhoods at the base of the hill.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.ithaca.com/news/extensive-pollution-persists-at-ithaca-s-two-most-toxic-sites/article_bae77a8a-3750-11e8-b4fc-b354172b2650.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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