Printer-friendlyManufactured Gas Plants
From the late 1800's to the mid 1900's, hundreds of manufactured gas plants across New York State supplied homes and industry with fuel for heating, cooking, and lighting. Today, the New York State DEC is overseeing the investigation and cleanup of contamination left behind from these plants.
The NYSDEC strategy for addressing MGP sites was presented at the at the 18th Annual International Conference of Contaminated Soils, Sediments and Water at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in October 2002. This presentation included a discussion of the technical and administrative challenges facing the remediation of these sites. Both an abstract of that presentation and the accompanying Power Point presentation (2.93 MB PDF) are available.
Manufactured Gas Plants in New York State
- The MGP Program at the NYSDEC
- MGP Sites in New York State
- MGP Cleanups
- Central Hudson Gas and Electric: 8 MGP Sites
- Consolidated Edison of New York: 50 MGP Sites
- KeySpan Energy: 41 MGP Sites
- National Fuel Gas: 3 MGP Sites
- National Grid - Formerly Niagara Mohawk: 51 MGP Sites
- New York State Electric & Gas: 37 MGP Sites
- Orange and Rockland Utilities: 7 MGP Sites
- Rochester Gas and Electric: 10 MGP Sites
- Non-Utility Sites: 4 MGP Sites
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General MGP Information
- General Information About MGPs
- Investigation of MGP Sites
- Contamination at MGP Sites
- What are the Environmental Impacts Resulting from a Former MGP?
- How Can People be Exposed to Contaminants at Former MGP Sites?
- MGP Glossary
