[CPEO-BIF] Master Cleaners, Guilderland, New York

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

How would oxidation work to clean up Master Cleaners brownfield? 

Altamont Enterprise (NY)
June 26, 2024 

GUILDERLAND — The engineer for the developer looking to decontaminate and build 285 apartments at the corner of Western Avenue and Foundry Road recently told the town’s planning board how it would make that happen. 

In late May, Daniel Hershberg told board members that the contamination plume runs through the center of the former Master Cleaners building, “then loops around and goes all the way down to the stream course at the back.” 

A project memo submitted to the Guilderland Town Board by Town Planner Kenneth Kovalchik says the contamination “has already impacted a tributary of the Hunger Kill and is in close proximity to the Hunger Kill and residential properties along Foundry Road.”

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For the entire article, see
https://altamontenterprise.com/06262024/how-would-oxidation-work-clean-master-cleaners-brownfield

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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
http://www.cpeo.org
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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