[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Watervliet Arsenal dump (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'Siberia' cleared as threat to health
State says dump site at Watervliet Arsenal is clean enough after  
removal work

By BRIAN NEARING
Albany Times-Union (NY)
November 2, 2011
WATERVLIET -- A sprawling World War II-era dump at the Watervliet  
Arsenal has been cleaned enough to present no threat to public health  
or the environment, the state Department of Environmental  
Conservation said.

DEC is proposing to remove the arsenal's "Siberia Area," a 15-acre  
fenced dump south of Watervliet Junior-Senior High School, from a  
state list of inactive hazardous waste sites, where it has been  
included since 1987.

This change would come as the Army, which operates the 140-acre  
arsenal, has agreed to open 60 unused acres for private development.  
Removing the dump from the hazardous waste list would relieve the  
state of responsibility for continuing to monitor groundwater, and  
transfer that role to the Army under the federal Resource Recovery  
and Conservation Act.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Siberia-cleared-as-threat-to- 
health-2249524.php

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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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