[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Ft. Slocum PCBs, Davids Island, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hearing tonight on Davids Island PCB cleanup

Greg Clary
Lower Hudson Journal News (NY)
September 16, 2009

NEW ROCHELLE - The Army Corps of Engineers will hold a public hearing 
tonight to review environmental impacts of cleaning up PCB contamination 
at Davids Island.

....

Davids Island is an 80-acre island in the Long Island Sound off of New 
Rochelle, and the former home to a military base, Fort Slocum. The base 
closed in the 1960s, leaving behind buildings and other infrastructure 
from the base. The Army Corps of Engineers finished tearing down the 
buildings and removing asbestos in January. Sampling of surface and 
sub-surface soils revealed polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination 
in six areas on the island.

An interim removal action is proposed to clean up the PCB contamination.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.lohud.com/article/20090916/NEWS02/909160385/-1/newsfront/Hearing%20tonight%20on%20Davids%20Island%20PCB%20cleanup

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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
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