[CPEO-BIF] "Tonawanda Coke's future: Superfund or Brownfield?" Tonawanda, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tonawanda Coke's future: Superfund or Brownfield?

By T.J. Pignataro
Buffalo News (NY)
May 31, 2019
 
 
The Tonawanda Coke site could be cleaned up and put back into use - possibly as a data center - in as soon as five years if the contaminated 160-acre River Road site gets cleaned up and redeveloped under the state’s Brownfield Cleanup Program.

That's the message Honeywell International and Ontario Specialty Contracting officials are bringing to the community.

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At least one community organization and a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official said a full Superfund designation is warranted given the toxicity and scope of the Tonawanda Coke cleanup.

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For the entire article, see
https://buffalonews.com/2019/05/31/tonawanda-cokes-future-superfund-or-brownfield/

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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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