[CPEO-BIF] "Demolition in full swing at former Rome Cable site, " Rome, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Demolition in full swing at former Rome Cable site

By Jolene Cleaver
Rome Sentinel (NY)
January 10, 2020 4:00 pm


This week, demolition and remediation efforts continued at the former Rome Cable site off of Erie Boulevard to make way for improvement and business development at the long-vacant site.

Workers estimate all of the structures and rubbish to be knocked down, remediated and removed from the site by June or July. All the metal extracted from the tear-down is being recycled and anything not recyclable is being taken to the landfill in Ava, workers there said.

At an early December Erie Boulevard Brownfield Opportunity Area project meeting, Matthew Andrews, the city’s community and economic development deputy director confirmed that work on the brownfield remediation was underway using a $1 million Superfund grant previously secured.

The work at the former Rome Cable site is part of the larger, Erie Boulevard Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) project, a roughly 575-acre area which includes land along the Erie Canal and sits adjacent to a Downtown Rome BOA project completed in 2018.

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For the entire article, see
https://romesentinel.com/stories/demolition-in-full-swing-at-former-rome-cable-site,89930

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