[CPEO-MEF] CONTRACTORS: Air Force Plant 51 (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup of Former Defense Plant Stalls

Bud Lowell
WXXI Public Radio (Rochester, NY)
March 17, 2009

ROCHESTER, NY - The owners of a former defense plant in the Town of 
Greece say they're withdrawing from a voluntary agreement to clean up 
toxic waste left there from years of heavy manufacturing. The State 
Department of Environmental Conservation says that doesn't mean 
chemicals will remain in the soil and water there, but it will probably 
take years longer to remove them.

4800 Dewey Avenue is a huge metal-sided building on the south end of 
Round Pond just off Lake Ontario. It was the Odenbach Shipbuilding 
Company when it made landing craft in World War Two. Later it became Air 
Force Plant 51 and made parts for B-52 bombers. When it was sold to 
private owners in 1959, contamination remained from solvents, PCBs, 
cyanide from electroplating and various metal compounds. The pollution 
is a concern because it's adjacent to the lake and the surrounding wetlands.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1481791&sectionID=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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