[CPEO-BIF] "New construction at brownfield Tonawanda Coke site could begin in two years"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

New construction at brownfield Tonawanda Coke site could begin in two years

By Stephen T. Watson
Buffalo News
February 18, 2023 

Progress at the former Tonawanda Coke property is revealed by what isn't there anymore.

Most of the steel, brick and concrete structures at the property torn down.

Thousands of tons of solid, hazardous or recyclable material taken away. And hundreds of millions of gallons of ground and surface water treated and discharged from the site.

"The speed is astounding. It's mind-boggling. Unprecedented. And all you have to do is go look around at every other industrial waste site in Western New York that languishes – pick one," said Jay Farquharson, a longtime Grand Island resident and member of the Citizen Science Community Resources group that fought Tonawanda Coke over its legacy of pollution.

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For the entire article, see
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/new-construction-at-brownfield-tonawanda-coke-site-could-begin-in-two-years/article_c0e2ed3c-ad4f-11ed-857e-4bb31af33905.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
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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