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How DEC's Shockingly Inadequate 12/22 Interim Remedial Action Proposal for 514 Union Street Was Rejected in Order to Require a Comprehensive Toxic Site Cleanup to Halt a "Significant Threat to Public Health or the Environment." (5/30/24)
On January 27, 2023, Toxics Targeting's submitted a well-documented request to the Department of Environmental Conservation that a proposed Interim Remedial Measure plan for high-level contamination 514 Union Street in Brooklyn, NY be rejected in favor of a comprehensive toxic site cleanup.
Toxics Targeting's January 27, 2023 Request: Please Do Not Adopt the Fatally Flawed Proposed "expedited cleanup of contamination at 514 Union Street," Brownfield Site # C224318
After more than a year of local, state, national and world-wide media coverage of the toxic Soil Vapor Intrusion hazards posed by this site, a favorable reply was finally received on May 30, 2024 when DEC declared that 514 Union Street "poses a significant threat to public health or the environment." In a Landmark Decision, a "completed cleanup" of "contamination" is required to "make the site fully protective of public health and the environment."
This landmark decision could improve implementation of New York's Brownfields Cleanup Law by rejecting Interim Remedial Measures in favor of strict enforcement of the State mandate to require toxic sites to be restored to "pre-disposal conditions, to the extent feasible." This legal mandate has almost never been enforced at thousands of Brownfields all over New York City and the State as a whole since the law was enacted more than 20 years ago.
Gowanus Canal Area NYS DEC Remediation Sites in PDF format
See how DEC's decision-making on 514 Union changed over time:
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May 2024 Brownfield Cleanup Program C224318 Fact Sheet - 514 Union St, Brooklyn
Shockingly Inadequate 12/22 Interim Remedial Measure Proposed as "Likely to represent a significant part of the cleanup for the site."
