[CPEO-BIF] Elmira High School/ former Remington Rand factory, Elmira, New Yorl

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic time bomb: Elmira High School pollution an urgent problem among NY's cleanups

by Tom Wilber
Elmira Star-Gazette (NY)
December 19, 2018

While digging up polluted and toxic soil at Elmira High School last summer, excavators hit a jarring surprise three feet below the parking lot - immovable concrete walls extending to unknown depths.

Environmental engineers overseeing the job knew the school was built on land polluted by the former Remington Rand factory, but they didn’t expect to encounter physical remains of the offending structure.

“They were massive,” said Heidi Dudek, a project manager with the state Department of Environmental Conservation. “Industrial relics - that’s the best way to describe them.” 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stargazette.com/story/news/local/watchdog/2018/12/19/new-york-pollution-elmira-high-school-pcb-tce-cancer-risks/2302445002/

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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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