[CPEO-BIF] Former Marble Quarry Landfill Brownfield Site, Tuckahoe, New York

[Lenny Siegel]

Former Marble Quarry Landfill Brownfield Site, Tuckahoe, New York
By Lenny Siegel
September, 2017
 

The Former Marble Quarry Landfill Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP) site in Tuckahoe, New York illustrates the inherent challenges facing New York State’s extensive program to rehabilitate contaminated brownfields sites. Remediation of the former landfill is fragmented into three parts. The hotel developer enrolled in the BCP as a volunteer is remediating its own property, but “is not responsible for investigating or remediating off-site contamination that has migrated from the BCP site, or that was disposed off-site (i.e., the remainder of the landfill).”

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To download the 7-oage, 5.6 MB report, go to
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/Tuckahoe.pdf

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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