[CPEO-BIF] Master Cleaners site, Guilderland, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEC requires cleanup of Master Cleaners brownfield, owner hopes to sell  

Altamont Enterprise (NY)
July 31, 2019

GUILDERLAND  Charles Bohl, who owns a 13-acre property at the corner of Route 20 and Foundry Road, part of which the state has deemed a threat to public health, told The Enterprise this week that he hopes a developer will purchase the property and take responsibility for its cleanup.

Meanwhile, since Bohl bought the property long after a dry-cleaning business there closed, he is not responsible for any contamination that may have spread beyond the property, said Mike Ryan, the director of environmental remediation with the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation. The state would be responsible, Ryan said, for any cleanup beyond the borders of Bohl’s property. 

“We’ll chase the contamination as far as it extends,” Ryan told The Enterprise. 

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For the entire article, see
https://altamontenterprise.com/07312019/dec-requires-cleanup-master-cleaners-brownfield-owner-hopes-sell

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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