Toxic Remnants of Dry-Cleaning Operations Remain.

Clinton West Plaza     

Clinton West is the center of many concerns from neighbors about the wide variety of toxins which have been found in groundwater and soil vapor tests on and around the plaza.  Many of these are attributed to the dry cleaning operation housed there, but the list of toxins found is very familiar.

Investigations into these problems are being supervised by staff from the Kirkwood office of the DEC (rather than the Syracuse office which monitors the Emerson site), so the people involved are different, but the problems faced and the process for investigation and proposing remedial actions are very similar.  A Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study Work Plan was released about a year ago by Fagan Engineers of Elmira.  A Public Meeting on this work and related concerns was held in August 2008.

Documents and maps related to these efforts and concerns are available at the Cleaner Clinton web site.

The Record of Decision for this site has been released - it's dated May 25, 2010.  The DEC has been updating their webpage for this site as well.