[CPEO-BIF] "Developers of Luxury Williamsburg Complex Look to Clean Toxic Soil Years After Building Completion, " Brooklyn, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Developers of Luxury Williamsburg Complex Look to Clean Toxic Soil Years After Building Completion

by Kevin Duggan
Brownstoner (NY)
August 14, 2020

A developer wants to cleanse heavily polluted soil and groundwater at 34 Berry Street in Williamsburg through the state-subsidized Brownfield Cleanup Program - a decade after building a luxury complex and renting apartments to hundreds of tenants on top of the toxic grounds.

Manhattan landlord company Lcor in 2017 applied with the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation to remove toxic chemicals known as chlorinated solvents and petroleum from beneath its seven-story building at the corner of North 12th Street, even though the building had already been occupied by tenants since 2009.

On Aug. 11, an engineer with the state agency presented the plan - scheduled for state approval in September - to local civic gurus, who lambasted the owner for allowing residents to live above the contaminated soil for so long.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.brownstoner.com/development/williamsburg-development-34-berry-street-toxic-soil-cleanup-brownfield-lcor-pollution-remediation/

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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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