[CPEO-BIF] "Long Island’s Groundwater Will Soon Be Cleaner," New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Long Island’s Groundwater Will Soon Be Cleaner

by Michael Martino.
New York League of Conservation Voters
November 1, 2019

Groundwater on Long Island will soon be healthier. A new Soil Wash Plant facility recently opened on Long Island that will help to protect groundwater and facilitate more brownfield site remediation. It is the only such facility in the world and will bring a new level of capacity to facilitate the cleanup of contaminated sites in the New York Metropolitan area.

The concept and need for the plant sprung from trying to develop a contaminated parcel of waterfront land in the Harbor Island community of Island Park known for five decades as the Cibro Oil Terminal, with 14 above ground and one underground oil storage tanks on-site. Sitting along the shores of the already-impaired Western Bays, the land had become a blight to the neighborhood in and around Island Park.

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For the entire blog, see
https://nylcv.org/news/long-islands-groundwater-will-soon-be-cleaner/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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