[CPEO-BIF] Former Breneman site, Oswego, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

After 39 years, DEC declares Oswego’s Breneman site remediated

By RANDY PELLIS
Oswego News (NY)
September 4, 2020 

OSWEGO - The legacy of Oswego’s great industrial age, both its good aspects and its bad, is still with us, and the environmental lessons it has taught us run deep.

On Aug. 25, the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced the completion of the brownfield cleanup of the former Breneman site at the corner of East First and Utica streets, 39 years after the former window shade manufacturer ceased production and closed its doors forever.

What was left behind was a hulking, Gothic structure, somewhat of a cross between a 19th-century insane asylum and armory, on five acres above and along the Oswego River contaminated beyond any possible use. And that was the problem.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.nny360.com/news/oswegocounty/after-39-years-the-dec-declares-oswego-s-breneman-site-remediated/article_89d55c6e-8187-5ec3-8fdd-bfcf44459476.html

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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
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