[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Air Force Plant 51, Greece, NY

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[Does anyone know why this site is not being treated as a Formerly Used 
Defense Site? - LS]


Greece polluted site remains uncleaned

Steve Orr
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (NY)
October 20, 2009



Eight years after agreeing to clean up contamination at an old shipyard 
and military plant on Dewey Avenue in Greece, the property owner has 
given up, leaving New York state with the task of overseeing remediation 
of the heavily polluted site.

Longtime Greece residents remember the huge building at 4777 Dewey Ave. 
as the Odenbach Shipbuilding Co. In the 1950s, the structure became Air 
Force Plant No. 51, where bomber and missile-related equipment was 
manufactured.

The property has been owned since the early 1960s by the family of Louis 
Atkin, a scrap-metal dealer.

Despite cleanup efforts by Atkin and others, high concentrations of 
chemicals remain in soil and underground water.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20091020/NEWS01/910200341/1002/NEWS/Greece+polluted+site+remains+uncleaned

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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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