[CPEO-BIF] "Whitestone grills the DEC on Waterpointe, " Queens, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Whitestone grills the DEC on Waterpointe

by Ryan Brady
Queens Chronicle (NY)
April 16, 2018 

Many in Whitestone have been outraged at the state Department of Environmental Conservation in recent months for its handling of the brownfield cleanup at the Waterpointe property by the East River. And when neighborhood residents met with agency officials last Thursday night at a neighborhood church, they held nothing back.

“To me, this looks like either gross incompetence or a complete cover-up,” We Love Whitestone Civic Association President Alfredo Centola said. “And I’m not one to mince words and with all due respect, I’m telling you what it looks like.”

The Waterpointe site, located at 151-45 Sixth Road, is where the Edgestone Group plans to build 52 single-family homes. Each would have a subslab depressurization system capable of detecting and treating harmful vapor in the location’s soil. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.qchron.com/editions/north/whitestone-grills-the-dec-on-waterpointe/article_0a5dd9a6-41b0-11e8-b330-6b67db18ce01.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Directo
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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