[CPEO-BIF] New York State's toxic sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

More than Love Canal: Infamous toxic site just the tip of NY's pollution woes

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

Elmira High School is one of 1,290 active and 220 potential toxic legacy sites statewide, according to an analysis of state records by the Elmira Star-Gazette.

Some, like the former IBM site in Endicott now owned by i3 Electronics, are still working factories. Others, such as the Morse Industrial area in Ithaca, are abandoned or mostly abandoned.

The largest, by area, is the Seneca Army Depot. The former munitions storage and disposal facility covering 10,600 acres in Seneca County is polluted with an array of hazards ranging from industrial solvents to radioactive waste, the extent of which is still being uncovered.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stargazette.com/story/news/local/watchdog/2018/12/19/new-york-hudson-river-pollution-toxic-love-canal-brownfields-superfund/2303791002/

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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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