<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hundreds of toxic sites across region<br class="">With EPA changes, environmentalists call for state to step up<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">by Stephen Williams </div><div class="">Schenectady Daily Gazette (NY)</div><div class="">November 4, 2017</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">CAPITAL REGION - Just after World War II, General Electric and the U.S. Navy ran a research base along the Mohawk River in Alplaus, a fenced and guarded site doing classified work on things like helicopter engines and ship propulsion systems.<br class=""><br class="">The Alplaus site closed in about 1959, and few people remember it today, but work there left behind a legacy that includes contamination with PCBs, heavy metals, petroleum and various other chemicals, though the extent of pollution remains unknown.<br class=""><br class="">With the recent withdrawal of a developer's controversial proposal to trade a site cleanup for large-scale residential development, it is unclear when and whether the old base that later become the Mohawk Industrial Park will ever be cleaned up, though the neighborhood, which fought the development plans, remains concerned.<br class=""><br class="">…<br class=""><br class="">For the entire article, see<br class=""><a href="https://dailygazette.com/article/2017/11/04/hundreds-of-toxic-sites-across-region" class="">https://dailygazette.com/article/2017/11/04/hundreds-of-toxic-sites-across-region</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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