[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS; IBM Gun Club cleanup, Union, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plan submitted to clean old IBM gun club

Contaminated soil would be trucked away

By William Moyer
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
January 15, 2011


UNION -- After all the shots were fired more than a decade ago, the 
ground at IBM's former gun club in the Town of Union was left with 
various contaminants, including arsenic, copper and lead.

Under the state's brownfield program, IBM Corp. has submitted a plan to 
finish cleanup of the club and shooting range's ground off Robinson Hill 
Road between Struble Road and the Binghamton Country Club.

If the state Department of Environmental Conservation approves IBM's 
proposed remedy, 20-to-40 truckloads of contaminated soil would be 
removed daily for up to eight weeks in late spring or early summer and 
hauled to a state-approved landfill. Clean soil would be brought to the 
gun club site, graded and seeded, as necessary, according to the DEC. 
Groundwater was not contaminated.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20110115/NEWS01/101150346/Plan+submitted+to+clean+old+IBM+gun+club

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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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