Removal of More Than 3,500 Pounds of Hazardous Waste from Patchogue
Auto Repair Shop Takes Less Than Two Weeks
Nov.
10 - With EPA providing oversight, the current owner of the
former Minty Auto Sales in Patchogue, NY, has completed a short-term
cleanup of waste chemicals left on his property by a previous owner.
"Working with the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation and the Suffolk County District Attorney, we were able
to convince the owner to clean out the potentially hazardous materials
and quickly eliminate a serious threat to the community," said
EPA Regional Administrator Jane M. Kenny. "The work was paid
for by the owner and completed in a very short time."
News Release
EPA Finishes $4.8 Million Cleanup at Ithaca Gun
Oct.
29 - Lead-tainted soil at the former Ithaca Gun Company is now
cleaned up to acceptable levels. Over the past two years, EPA vacuumed
up soil contaminated with lead from spent shot that was scattered
throughout the area. "In the spring, after some minor restoration
work is completed, EPA will return the once contaminated Fall Creek
Gorge area to its former scenic grandeur," said EPA Regional
Administrator Jane M. Kenny. "The terrain in this area made
what would have been a relatively straight-forward cleanup much
more difficult, but we got the job done."
News Release
Colonial Acres Is First Golf Course to Gain Entry to EPA Performance
Track
Oct.
28 - The Colonial Acres Golf Course in Glenmont, NY is the only
organization of its type in the national EPA Performance Track program.
A winner of the NY Governor's Pollution Prevention Award, Colonial
Acres has reduced water use, emissions of volatile organic chemicals,
and use of synthetic pesticides by 70%.
News Release
Nitrogen Management
Challenge for Golf Courses
Region
2 Performance Track Members
First Idle-Free Truck Stop Facility Provides Cleaner Air for Children
and Families
Oct.
20 - With the aid of $1 million from the settlement of an EPA
enforcement action with the Coastal Eagle Point Refinery, the Travel
Center in Paulsboro, NJ became the state's first truck stop electrification
facility. The equipment was installed at nearly 100 parking spaces,
allowing truck drivers to "plug-in" to a window sized
system that provides air conditioning and heat, internet services,
television, telephone and other amenities. In doing so, they will
be reducing harmful emissions caused by idling. Appropriately announced
during National
Children's Health Month, this initiative will eliminate noxious
fumes from idling engines, and children and families residing in
the Paulsboro will be the direct beneficiaries. Children, in particular,
breathe more air proportionately than their parents and elders and
are at greater risk for serious respiratory problems such as asthma.
News
Release
EPA's Smartway Transport
Partnership
Children's Health in Region 2
New Rochelle Girl Scouts Conduct Street Clean-up and Storm Drain
Campaign
Oct.
11 - This past Columbus Day, 16 members of Girl Scout Troop
1865 and friends conducted a street cleanup and storm drain awareness
campaign in their hometown, New Rochelle, NY. The cleanup crew affixed
brightly colored stickers that read "No Dumping, Drains to
Bay" to storm drains and distributed flyers, in English and
Spanish, that told residents how to keep the streets litter-free.
Donna Somboonlakana, an EPA Environmental Engineer, helped plan
and coordinate the program.
New Rochelle's
Stormwater Management Plan
EPA's
Stormwater Program Outreach Materials
Third Annual Water Quality Monitoring Day Celebrated by Schoolchildren
in Syracuse
Sept.
30 - One hundred forty children from six Syracuse area schools
gained hands-on experience in water quality sampling at a Water
Quality Monitoring Day event held September 30 and October 1,
2004. Testing was conducted at Onondaga Creek, Kimber Brook and
Webster Pond. Chris Dere and Erika Clark of EPA and representatives
of the US Geological Survey, the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation, Upstate Freshwater Institute and the Onondoga Lake
Cleanup Corporation introduced the students to the ecological significance
of testing for pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen and turbidity.
News Release
National
News Release
EPA Removes Love Canal from Superfund List
Sept.
30 - EPA has finalized its decision to remove the Love Canal
site in Niagara County from the Superfund National Priorities List.
All cleanup work at the site has been completed, and followup monitoring
conducted over the past 15 years and continuing today confirms that
the cleanup goals have been reached. "Love Canal taught us
that we needed a mechanism to address abandoned hazardous waste
sites, especially those that posed a threat to people's health,"
said Jane M. Kenny, EPA's Regional Administrator. "Decades
later, Love Canal has become a symbol of our success under Superfund.
It is once again a thriving community."
News Release
Love Canal
Documents
FR
- Notice of deletion of Love Canal
Where
Saltwater Meets Freshwater: EPA Focuses on the Beauty and Importance
of Our National Estuaries
Sept. 22 - EPA has announced educational and
fun family-friendly events to celebrate the New York/New Jersey
Harbor, starting on National Estuaries Day, Saturday, September
25. EPA will also participate in "EstuaryLive," an educational
program featuring the Barnegat Bay and Peconic Estuaries, and accessible
to public via live webcasts. In addition, EPA lauded East End Long
Island golf courses for pledging to reduce fertilizer use and improve
the Peconic Estuary.
Related News Releases
EPA & Public and Private
Partners Celebrate National Estuaries Day With a Variety of NY/NJ
Harbor Events (9/21)
East End Long Island Golf Courses
Pledge to Reduce Fertilizer Use (9/22)
EPA Celebrates National Estuaries Day in New
York and New Jersey With Live
Webcast for Teachers and Students (9/23-24)
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Fall
2004 Electronics Recycling Events
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The New York City
Department of Sanitation is sponsoring upcoming electronics
recycling events
throughout New York City.
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Putting
an End to Dirty Diesels
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Young people growing
up today have no memory of a time when the nations factories
spewed black clouds of smoke into the air. They are, however,
all too familiar with the black puffs of smoke that come from
cars, trucks, buses, and construction and farm equipment that
run on diesel fuel. But the days of riding behind a dirty
diesel will soon be over, thanks to a suite of federal clean
diesel programs that improve emission controls on nearly
every type of diesel engine in use today or in the future....more
News
Release
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Vieques
Cleanup
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Information on the
environmental investigation of potential contamination from
U.S. Navy training activities on Vieques
Island, Puerto Rico.
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Nonpoint
Source Pollution
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When you're putting
fertilizer on your lawn, remember to keep it on your lawn.
Find out more about how
you can prevent nonpoint source
pollution.
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Draft
Region 2 State of the Environment Report 2004
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The final version
of this report will be coming soon. In the meantime, you can
view this pre-publication copy.
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Chemical
Facility Security
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To help guard
against terrorism, EPA urges all facilities that handle
chemicals and pesticides to assess their vulnerability to
environmental releases of these chemicals. EPA has produced
a
checklist and Web
page to assist in these assessments.
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EPA
Response to September 11
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Information
relating to the 9/11 attack and its aftermath, including cleanup
of surrounding areas, monitoring data, health-related information,
and information about residential dust, has been consolidated
on our WTC Web site. The site now allows residents who
have had their homes tested to access their data online.
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