[CPEO-MEF] Marathon Battery (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tax lien kills plan for Cold Spring senior center, parking

By Susan Elan
White Plains Journal News (NY)
January 16, 2007

A deal designed to turn a former federal Superfund site in downtown Cold 
Spring into a community center and 100-space parking lot has dissolved 
because of a $1.1 million property-tax dispute.

"We were told forgiving the taxes would be an illegal action," Putnam 
Legislator Vincent Tamagna, R-Philipstown, said recently.

...

The contaminated site underwent a $100 million cleanup, during which the 
100,000-square-foot Marathon Battery Corp. factory was razed. The 
contamination by cadmium and other heavy metals took place when the U.S. 
Army manufactured airplane batteries there from 1952 to 1980.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nyjournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070116/NEWS04/701160331/1234

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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