"Across New York State, brownfields offer tremendous opportunities to protect our precious open spaces and natural resources while promoting new economic development and job creation within our communities," Gov. George Pataki says. "These grants will provide local governments with the resources they need to reclaim and redevelop these properties for the benefit of the entire community."
The grants include more than $6.6 million for remediation of the Barretto Point site in the Bronx; $475,000 for the investigation of the McKinney property in Syracuse; $324,000 for the investigation of the former Rome Cable Site, located on Ridge Street in Rome; $266,000 for the investigation of the PURA-14 property in Poughkeepsie; $180,000 for investigation of the former Jones and Laughlin Iron Ore Processing facility in Clifton, St. Lawrence County; and $168,000 for investigation of the former Diamond International paper mill site in Ogdensburg, also in St. Lawrence County.
The largest grant was awarded for the remediation of the Barretto Point site in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. The property consists of a 13-acre, city-owned waterfront parcel that was developed primarily for various industrial purposes in the 1950s, state officials say. The remediation will include excavation and off-site disposal of contaminated soil; installation of a two-foot soil cover; groundwater extraction; and treatment and institutional controls. Upon completion of the remedial action, a public waterfront park will be created on the five-acre northwestern portion of the site and the remainder of the property is intended for use as an area for the upgrade of the Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Plant.
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