[CPEO-BIF] "State to test for contaminants at Kings Park landfill, " Suffolk County, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State to test for contaminants at Kings Park landfill

By Nicholas Spangler
Long Island Newsday (NY)
September 30, 2019 

New York State environmental officials are poised to open an investigation into hazardous materials that may be present at the former Steck Philbin landfill in Kings Park, a move that could complicate and delay a Suffolk County Landbank plan to sell the tax-delinquent property. 

The preliminary investigation will sample soil, groundwater and surface water and trace possible “contaminant migration pathways” nearby for a group of chemicals known as PFOS and PFOA, a Department of Environmental Conservation spokeswoman wrote in an email. The chemicals  are used to make stain- and water-resistant materials, and exposure over certain levels can cause cancer and other adverse health effects, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. 

If DEC officials determine the 25-acre Steck site off Old Northport Road is a source of contamination and poses a “significant threat,” they could add the site to the state’s Superfund Program registry, the spokeswoman wrote.  

“That would tie up any redevelopment on the site for a decade,” said Sarah Lansdale, director of the landbank, a nonprofit operated by county officials to facilitate rehabilitation of tax delinquent brownfield sites. DEC officials would need “unfettered” access to the site during Superfund investigation and longer-term access for cleanup, said Michael Ryan, the agency’s environmental remediation director.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/environment/kings-park-landfill-1.37014919

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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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