[CPEO-BIF] "Community Wants Seat at the Table for Future of Tonawanda Coke Site, " Tonawanda, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Community Wants Seat at the Table for Future of Tonawanda Coke Site

By Brandon Lewis 
Spectrum News (NY)
July 9, 2020

Western New York hasn't forgotten about the future of the former Tonawanda Coke site during the coronavirus pandemic. The Clean Air Coalition of Western New York held a public meeting Thursday night to discuss the latest on the cleanup efforts there.

On July 1, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation released the Riverview Innovation and Technology Campus plan for sampling toxins at the former Tonawanda Coke site. The Riverview Innovation and Technology campus encompasses roughly 86 acres of the 102-acre site in the Town of Tonawanda.

The plan calls for a number of things including sampling on-site sediment and collecting surface soil samples. The RITC part of the site is being cleaned up through the Brownfield Cleanup Program. The Clean Air Coalition says that means at least some of the financial burden will fall on local taxpayers.

The Clean Air Coalition of Western New York is pushing for Western New Yorkers to send their concerns and thoughts on the testing plan to the DEC, like what parts of the site should be investigated.

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For the entire article, see
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/news/2020/07/10/community-wants-seat-at-the-table-for-future-of-tonawanda-coke-site

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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
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