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DEC removes small portion of former GM site in Massena from inactive hazardous waste site list

Posted 3/30/16

MASSENA -- The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has removed the minerals processing area of the former General Motors site from its Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste …

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DEC removes small portion of former GM site in Massena from inactive hazardous waste site list

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MASSENA -- The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has removed the minerals processing area of the former General Motors site from its Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites.

In January, the state said the piece of the property, on the south side of state Route 37, “no longer poses a threat to public health or the environment.”

They say the Revitalizing Auto Communities Environmental Response trust, which acquired the property from the automaker after it went bankrupt, removed soil riddled with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in September 2014.

“Soils containing [PCB] were excavated and properly disposed of off-site through a series of interim remedial measures,” DEC writes in its notice of “delisting” the site.

In January 2014, RACER officials announced they removed 250 percent more contaminated soil than anticipated from the entire property, which also included the minerals processing area. They budgeted for 121,000 and took out more than 335,000 tons.

DEC says they stopped groundwater monitoring at the site after finding no contamination in tests conducted in 2001, 2003 and 2005.