Region 9 - Environmental Remediation Project Information
DEC's Division of Environmental Remediation in Region 9 is responsible for investigating and cleaning up sites throughout Western New York that were contaminated from past industrial activities. These sites that were once economic engines for the region now contribute to environmental degradation, potential health problems, urban decay, decreased tax revenue, and population loss.
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New York State's environmental cleanup programs are transforming these sites, paving the way for restored ecological habitat, waterfront development, clean energy, new jobs, recreational opportunities, and enhanced appreciation of the environment. DEC is committed to cleaning up, restoring, and protecting Western New York's environment so it may be enjoyed and utilized both today and tomorrow.




Site numbers are linked to the public environmental remediation database. PDF documents available on the project pages may be abbreviated, but full project documents are always available at the site's document repository.
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Allegany
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Allegany Bitumens Asphalt Plant (Site Number C902019) - The Allegany Bitumens site is approximately 5 acres, located in a primarily agricultural area. The site was previously used as an asphalt plant by Allegany Bitumens, Inc. and A.L. Blades and Sons, Inc. from approximately 1960 until 2005. Since 2005, the site has been unoccupied. A laboratory is located in the northwest corner of the Site. The laboratory was used for testing of aggregate and asphalt materials. Trichloroethene (TCE) was reportedly used as a solvent in the testing operations, and previous investigations indicated the presence of TCE and related volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in an area northeast of the laboratory building. These VOCs were detected in shallow soil and groundwater at levels above New York State standards.
Allegany Bitumens site- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- Cuba Landfill (Site Number 902012) - The Cuba Landfill site is a former municipal solid waste landfill and a New York State Class 2 inactive hazardous waste site. A Class 2 site is one that poses a significant threat to human health and/or the environment and requires action. It operated as a municipal landfill from the 1950s until 1981. The landfill accepted household, commercial and industrial waste, including industrial waste from Acme Electric Corporation (AEC). AEC disposed of solvents, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) capacitors, plating sludge and paint sludge. Wastes were deposited in trenches 10-15 feet wide, 4-10 feet deep and hundreds of feet long. The remedy for the site involves consolidating wastes into a single cell and capping the landfill.
- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
Cattaraugus
- 202 Franklin Street (Site Number C905043) - This site is a 5.159-acre site located in an urban area in the City of Olean. The site is relatively flat and includes a 1.83-acre paved parking lot. The remainder of the site is vacant land covered by brush, small to mature trees, and exposed remnants of former buildings (e.g. Concrete pads, bricks, etc.). The site is currently inactive and zoned for commercial industrial use. The nearest residential area is 0.3 miles to the south and east. Until 1962 the site was used for manufacturing wastebaskets, vases, etc. from reprocessed waste. Prior uses that appear to have led to site contamination include USTs, boiler, power plant, painting, wood alcohol, and paper pulp operations.
- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- 211 Franklin Street/Solepoxy (Site Number 905038 and C905038) - This BCP site is located in the City of Olean, Cattaraugus County. The site is bordered by a parking lot and an athletic field to the north and northwest, residential properties to the northeast and railroad corridors to the southwest and southeast. The nearest residential property is approximately 120 feet northeast of the site. Site Features: The site is approximately 5.7 acres in size. A single one and two-story industrial building, with partial basement, covers approximately 90% of the site. Current Zoning and Land Use: The site is currently zoned and used for industrial purposes in manufacturing epoxies and resins. Past Use of the Site: The site has historically been used for various manufacturing operations including manufacturing chemicals, glass bottles, metal furniture and metal wares. Painting, polishing, and plating operations historically occurred on the site.
- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- RCRA, site 905038: DECinfo Locator
- BCP, site C905038: DECinfo Locator
- 229 Homer Street (Site Number C905044) - The site is a 3.34 acre site in an urban area bound by Two Mile Creek and Homer Street to the west, a solid waste transfer station to the northeast, Southern Tier Rail Authority rail lines to the southeast, and the 251 Homer Street BCP site to the southwest. The site is relatively flat and includes one approximate 5,575 square foot building used for office, maintenance, and storage. The site is zoned for commercial use and currently occupied by a construction contractor with an office and yard used for storage of construction equipment. From the 1880s to 1950 the site was used for oil refinery purposes and as a petroleum tank farm which has led to site contamination. Former refinery tanks and buildings were removed in 1964. Abandoned refinery piping containing petroleum has been identified as extending onto 229 Homer Street Site.
- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- 251 Homer Street (Site Number C905037) - The project site is situated in an industrially zoned area of the City of Olean, Cattaraugus County, New York. The site currently consists of 16.68 acres of vacant land that was originally developed in 1890 for the oil industry and used for refinery purposes and as a petroleum storage tank farm. Historically, nearby adjoining properties were also developed and utilized in association with oil refining operations and petroleum storage. Petroleum refining operations ceased in 1954. Previous preliminary environmental investigations at the site revealed a number of environmental impacts. Samples of soil revealed concentrations of various organic compounds and metals that exceeded New York State standards.
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- 291 Homer Street (Site Number C905042) - The site is located in the City of Olean and is comprised of two tax parcels at the corner of Homer and Johnson Streets. The site is zoned Industrial and is currently occupied by MJ Painting Contractor Corporation, a commercial and industrial painting contractor. The 299 Homer St. parcel is also zoned industrial. The site was owned by Vacuum Oil Company (predecessor of Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc.) from 1913 until approx. 1954. The area in the vicinity of the Site was used for industrial operations including, but not limited to, petroleum storage and refining, leather tanneries, heavy and light manufacturing, chrome plating, fertilizer manufacturing and railroad facilities.
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AVM Gowanda (Site Number 905025 and V00148) - DEC) is cleaning up this site located at One Industrial Place in Gowanda. The site is listed as a Class "2" site in the State Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Sites. A Class 2 site represents a significant threat to public health or the environment - action is required. The site is located in an urban portion of Cattaraugus County. The main site features include two large buildings and two small storage sheds surrounded by paved parking areas. A small portion of the site area is wooded while the remaining area is open field. The site is currently used by the Village of Gowanda Department of Public Works and is zoned for industrial/commercial use. Until 1979, the site was used for metal machining and stamping. These historic operations along with improper waste disposal practices appear to have led to contamination of soil and groundwater at the site.
Aerial view of Gowanda site- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- Superfund, site number 905025: DECinfo Locator
- Voluntary Cleanup Program, site V00148: DECinfo Locator
- Former Signore Facility (Site Numbers 905023, C905034) - The Former Signore Facility BCP site is located at 55 Jefferson Street, Ellicottville, Cattaraugus County. The property has been used for manufacturing purposes for over 50 years. The facility was primarily used for the machining and fabrication of metal parts. In 1986, the Signore facility underwent a soil and groundwater sampling program which identified Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) contamination. Specifically, trichloroethene (TCE) and trichloroethane (TCA) were identified as contaminants of concern at the site. Down gradient public and private drinking water wells were impacted. The contamination was attributed to spills, leakage and other plant operations.
- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- Superfund Program: DECinfo Locator
- Brownfield Program: DECinfo Locator
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Olean Redevelopment (Site Numbers C905031, C905032, C905033) - Beginning in the late 19th century, various oil refineries used this site and adjacent properties for oil refining, storage and distribution operations until 1954. Agway, Inc. purchased the site in 1966 to manufacture fertilizer until 1983. In 2007, ExxonMobil purchased the site. ExxonMobil submitted applications for the BCP, and agreements were signed in 2009 for the three parcels comprising the site.
Aerial view of Olean Redevelopment site- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder):
- Parcel 1: DECinfo Locator
- Parcel 2: DECinfo Locator
- Parcel 3: DECinfo Locator
- Scott Rotary Seals (Site Number C905036) - The Scott Rotary Seals site is a 2-acre parcel of vacant land located in a historic heavy industrial area of the City of Olean. The site and surrounding area had been developed as a petroleum refinery with numerous above-ground storage tanks and heavy industrial operations. The site was once a portion of a larger petroleum refinery and petroleum bulk storage facility known as the Socony-Vacuum facility. Several debris piles containing brick, concrete, metal and piping are present on-site. Petroleum contamination is impacting site soils.
- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
Chautauqua
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AlTech Specialty Steel (Site Number 907022) - The former AlTech Specialty Steel Corp. (AlTech) is an approximately 90 acre industrial site located in the City of Dunkirk, Chautauqua County. Select demolition activities are slated to begin in late February at the former steel plant. The demolition work will be focused on a portion of the Brigham Road Plant where historical pickling operations occurred.
Aerial view of AlTech site - Anderson Cleaners (Site Number C907027) - The Anderson Cleaners site is an active dry-cleaning business located at 5 Hunt Road, Jamestown, near the intersection of Harding Avenue. Cleanup activities are proposed at the site to address environmental contamination caused by the release of a dry-cleaning substance previously used at the site that has impacted the site's soil and groundwater with chlorinated volatile organic compounds (cVOCs).
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Carroll Town Landfill (Site Number 907017) - The Town of Carroll operated the site as a municipal solid waste landfill from the early 1960s to 1979. Records indicate that industrial wastes were disposed of in the landfill during the period of operation. In 1979, the landfill was permitted to continue operation only as a construction and demolition debris landfill and also began operation as a waste transfer station. The western landfill cell was closed in May 1980 and it is unclear when the eastern cell closed. The Town reported that the site closed as a waste transfer station in 1986. In 1992, as part of the remedial investigation of the Vac Air Alloys site in Frewsburg, it was alleged that industrial waste from Vac Air Alloys was disposed of at the landfill. As a result, DEC began a series of investigations of the Carroll Landfill.
Carroll Landfill site - Dunkirk Former MGP (Site Number 907035) - The former Dunkirk MGP operated from the late 1800s to approximately 1910. While operating as an MGP facility, the plant heated coal to produce "manufactured" gas used mostly for lighting streets and buildings in Dunkirk. The site is presently used as a Service Center for National Fuel. In March, National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation (National Fuel) will begin an expanded environmental study at the former MGP.
- March 2013 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF)
- RI Work Plan (Document 1 of 3) (227 page PDF)
- RI Work Plan (Document 2 of 3) (83 page PDF)
- RI Work Plan (Document 3 of 3) (93 page PDF)
- August 2010 Site Characterization Work Plan (172 page PDF)
- August 2010 Health and Safety Work Plan (Appendix C) (170 page PDF, 5.1 MB)
- July 2010 Fact Sheet (2 page PDF)
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Edgewood Warehouse (Site Number E907032) - A cleanup plan has been developed to address contamination at the Edgewood Warehouse Site in Dunkirk. The site had been used for manufacturing locomotives and other industrial purposes. The site is currently being addressed under the Environmental Restoration Program, but the Roberts Road Redevelopment company has applied to clean up the site under the BCP (Site Number C907032).
Edgewood site - Essex-Hope (Site Number 907015) - The 4.7 acre Essex-Hope site was formerly the location of a manufacturing facility for industrial coatings and paint that operated from the late 1940's until the early 1990's. The property is currently owned by CPM, Inc. Upcoming cleanup actions are a follow-up response to the previous site investigations that were conducted at the Essex/Hope site in 2005 and 2006. These investigations determined that groundwater beneath the site was contaminated with VOCs, specifically TCE and vinyl chloride.
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Former C&B Dry Cleaners (Site Number E907028) - This 0.22 acre site is located at 2241 Washington Street in Jamestown. It was operated as a dry cleaner from 1931 until 1999. The building was demolished in 2003.
C&B Dry Cleaners site - Former Edgewood Warehouse (Site Number C907032) - The site is located at 320 South Roberts Road in the City of Dunkirk and consists of three parcels totaling approximately 8.6 acres. It is currently a vacant industrial property. The site, formerly part of a larger industrial complex, was first developed in 1910. It was used for a variety of manufacturing operations until being purchased by Edgewood Investments, Inc., which operated a warehouse within the existing main building from 1982 until 2008. After performing a remedial investigation/alternatives analysis of the site under the ERP (Site Number E907032), the County of Chautauqua acquired the site via tax foreclosure in 2008 for the purpose of stimulating private redevelopment interests.
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- Niagara Motors (Site Number E907025) - The Former Niagara Motors site consists of approximately 4.3 acres. The site has been used for various industrial purposes, including the manufacturing of marine engines from at least 1919 through the 1970s. Operations ceased in the 1970s. The industrial building was abandoned approximately 10 years later and ultimately demolished. Inspections of the site found evidence of improper petroleum disposal. Between 2005 and 2007, DEC performed environmental investigations at the site, and in September 2006 the Department excavated two underground storage tanks. The investigation revealed that surface and subsurface soils were contaminated with lead, arsenic, and petroleum.
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Roblin Steel (Site Number B00173) - The former Roblin Steel site in Dunkirk is being addressed through New York's Environmental Restoration Program and will be available for redevelopment. The site is located at 320 South Roberts Road in the City of Dunkirk. It was initially part of a larger industrial complex operated by the American Locomotive Company in the early 1900s. The 12-acre site was most recently occupied by a rolling mill that was closed and partially dismantled in the late 1980s. Since that time the Roblin Steel Site has been vacant.
Roblin Steel site - Standard Portable (Site Number C907030) - Former metal working operations at this site in Mayville, NY contaminated the property and adjacent areas with a chemical called TCE. Environmental investigation work is being conducted to determine if TCE contamination is migrating toward Lake Chautauqua.
Erie
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3 Gates Circle (Site Number C915272) - This brownfield site is located at 3 Gates Circle in the City of Buffalo. It consists of approximately 6.9 acres and encompasses the former Millard Fillmore Gates Circle hospital complex. The site was initially developed for residential use and partially used for tricycle manufacturing pre-1900. By 1916 the site was beginning to be operated as a hospital facility, with continued expansion of the hospital complex through the early 1970's (i.e. Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital).
Aerial view of Gates Circle site- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
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19 North Street (Site Number C915303) - The site is located in the City of Buffalo at the intersection of North Pearl Street and North Street, adjacent to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. The site is vacant with a small parking area in the eastern portion of the site. The Site fronts to North Street. The Phase I ESA indicated that the BCP Site was occupied by residential dwellings. By 1951, the residence at 23 North Street had become a radio station. By 1981, the residence at 19 North Street had been removed and replaced with a radio tower. Urban fill has been historically used throughout Buffalo to bring properties to grade during excavation and construction.
19 North Street site- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- 25 Rano Street (Site Number C915323) - The site is located in an industrial, commercial and residential area of the City of Buffalo. It is bound by Rano Street to the north, vacant land owned by the City of Buffalo that was formerly a railroad to the south, a commercial manufacturing facility to the east, and Tonawanda Street to the west. The nearest water body is the Niagara River located 0.37 miles west of the site. Scajaquada Creek is approximately 1.2 miles south of the site. The site is mostly vacant land with concrete sidewalks, asphalt parking areas, landscaping, and one vacant 312,760 square foot industrial structure that was historically used as a metal plating facility among other industrial uses. The redevelopment plans for the site include an indoor sports complex with the possible future development of commercial and residential use buildings. The site has been vacant since 2008. From 2010 to December 2011, asbestos abatement and repair of asbestos in the building was completed by the EPA along with the removal of solid and liquid hazardous and non-hazardous waste. The remaining industrial structure is vacant and dilapidated.
- 31 Tonawanda Street (Site Number C915299) - The site consists of two separate parcels on Tonawanda Street in the Black Rock section of the City of Buffalo. The property contains an irregularly shaped, approximately 115,000 square foot building that occupies the majority of the property. In the late 1800s, the United States Electric Light and Power Company of Buffalo (later called the Buffalo General Electric Company) had a plant for arc lighting on the southern portion of the 31 Tonawanda Street property while the Thompsons Shingle Mill was located on the northern portion.
- 68 Tonawanda Street (Site Number C915316) - This site is located on approximately 1.74 acres of land at 68 Tonawanda Street in the Black Rock section of the City of Buffalo. The site is bordered by rail lines and vacant undeveloped industrial and commercial properties to the west; the 31 Tonawanda Street Site (Site No. C915299) to the north; Tonawanda Street, mostly vacant commercial and industrial properties, and Scajaquada Creek to the east; and a vacant residential/restaurant structure, a vehicle repair shop and Niagara Street to the south. The property contains the former New York Central Freight House and Office. The property has been associated with rail operations since the mid-late 1800s. In February 2013, a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) was completed on the property. This was followed by the completion of a limited Phase II ESA in March 2014, and a second Phase II ESA in January 2016. These Phase II ESA's documented the presence of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and metals at concentrations that exceeded the residential and restricted residential soil cleanup objectives (SCOs). Volatile organic compounds and pesticides were also detected but at concentrations below the SCOs. Groundwater at the site was not evaluated during the Phase II ESA's.
Aerial view of 89 LaSalle site - 89 LaSalle Avenue (Site Number C915283) - The proposed BCP site is located at 89 LaSalle Avenue in the City of Buffalo, Erie County. The site consists of 4 parcels totaling approximately 10.61 acres and is currently vacant with the exception of City-owned tennis courts and parking areas. The site is currently zoned for residential and commercial use, and is also used recreationally. The southeastern half of the site, including the City-owned parcel, was used as a stone quarry from approximately 1915 through 1950. The quarry was subsequently used by the City of Buffalo as a landfill in the 1950s and 1960s for the disposal of demolition debris, ash, railroad ballast and reportedly some municipal waste. The northwestern half of the site was used as a lumber yard since the early 1900s. More recently, some of the structures on this portion of the site were used for automotive storage after the lumberyard closed. There were no other uses noted for this portion of the site.
- 90 Hopkins Street (Site Number E915181) - The 90 Hopkins Street site is 8.25 acres located off Hopkins Avenue in the City of Buffalo, Erie County, approximately 1/4 mile south of the Tifft Street intersection. The site is situated in an urban industrial area.
- 73-79 W. Huron St (Site Number C915282) - The 73-79 W. Huron Street is a 0.576 acre site located in Buffalo, in Erie County. The site consists of a building and a parking lot. The six story rectangular parking garage is at 73 W Huron. The parking lot portion of the site is used for commercial purposes. Following a site cleanup, the building will be redeveloped for mixed commercial/residential use. The six-story building was constructed in the early 1900s as a horse stable. It was later converted to an automobile parking ramp. Historical activities included the use of petroleum products in above ground drums and underground tanks.
- 111 Hydraulic Street (Site Number C915235) - The 111 Hydraulic Street site in the City of Buffalo is approximately 3 acres. Since 1940, the site has been used by dry cleaning, linen and laundry services, commercial retail stores, offices, auto body repair shops, gas tank removal and refurbishing services, and door and radiator sand blasting services. Site investigations conducted in 2006-07 and 2009-10 revealed the presence of petroleum hydrocarbons, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and metals.
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125 Main Street (Site Number C915262) - The site is an approximately 2.185-acre parcel located in the historic canal district of the City of Buffalo, Erie County, New York. The site was historically utilized for various commercial and industrial purposes since at least the early 1800s, including commercial storefronts, restaurants, hotel, the Lehigh Valley Railroad Passenger Station, contractor's yard, junk yard, former Quay Street, A. Krauss Hide and Wool Warehouse, Forbush and Brown Boot and Shoe manufacturing company, tin shop, paint shop, Patent medicine manufacturer, wire works, and the former Hamburg Canal. The site was utilized as the General William J Donovan State Office Building from approximately 1961 through 2008 and is currently vacant.
Aerial view of 125 Main Street site- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- 129 Holden Street (Site Number C915261) - From 1877 to 1948, the Buffalo Cement Co. operated this site for mining. In 1958 the site was developed by Central Park Shopping Center, Inc. In addition to shopping stores, other businesses such as auto repair, photographic processing, and dry cleaning also occupied the Central Park Plaza. The site has been vacant since July 2011.
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132 Dingens Street (Site Number C915263) - This 13-acre site is located at 132-136 Dingens Street in Buffalo. Most of the contamination occurred before 1966, at that time, the area was built up to its current grade with mixed fill that contributed to the semi-volatile organic compound (SVOC) and heavy metal contamination. A fuel service company with numerous petroleum aboveground storage tanks (ASTs) and underground storage tanks (USTs) operated at the site until 1966 when it was purchased for a food distribution warehouse. The warehouse was constructed in 1974. The warehouse burned down in 2011. DEC accepted written comments about the draft investigation work plan for 30 days, from July 10, 2012 through August 10, 2012.
Aerial view of 132 Dingens Street site- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
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154 South Ogden Street (Site Number C915268) - This brownfield site is located in an urban area. It is a 21 acre site of a 26.6 acre parcel. The site is a vacant lot with multiple debris piles, and bound by the Buffalo River to the north, South Ogden Street to the east, railroad tracks to the west and Mineral Spring Road to the south. Historic records indicate the site was not previously developed; however a portion of the property was previously traversed by the Buffalo River and was filled with concurrent straightening of the river channel. Portions of this site were historically used as a dump.
Aerial view of 154 S Ogden site- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
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166 Chandler Holdings, LLC (Site Number C915320) - The site is located in the City of Buffalo and consists of one parcel totaling approximately 0.48 acres of land. The site is bound to the south by Chandler Street, to the west by a vacant building and lot, to the north by a railroad line and to the east by a vacant lot used for storage. The property is located within an urban area, utilized for industrial, commercial, and residential purposes. The 166 Chandler parcel has one 43,000 square foot four-story building located on the eastern portion of the site. Historic industrial fill and rubble resulting from the demolition of old buildings, as well as piles of soil/debris are located within the western parking area. The structure was originally constructed in 1907 as a dairy machine manufacturer with additions to the building in 1909, 1919, 1927, and 1931. Former usages also included grocery, Linde Air Products, Sponge Air Seat Co., and Barcalo Mfg (furniture manufacturer). Several fires occurred during the 1980s and 1990s that resulted in demolition of the western portion of the building. The building has been vacant for over 20 years. A Phase II Investigation conducted in 2016 reported that soil/fill at the site is contaminated with metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The nature and extent of contamination will be determined as part of the ongoing Remedial Investigation (RI).
Aerial view of 166 Chandler Holdings site- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- 193 Ship Canal Parkway (Site Number C915240) - This brownfield site is located in the Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park, the partially redeveloped former location of the Hanna Furnace iron foundry, on the southern boundary of the City of Buffalo, near NY State Route 5 and the Union Ship Canal. The site includes numerous piles of construction and demolition debris. There is also a dry pond, several feet deep, excavated in 2004 to accept groundwater pumped from the excavations dug to install the sewers and other utilities for the commerce park. The site was investigated and it was determined that it did not pose a significant threat. The site is currently inactive and located in a district currently zoned for heavy industrial use. Two nearby parcels in the commerce park were redeveloped under the Brownfield Cleanup Program and are occupied by manufacturing facilities (Certainteed, Site #C915185 and Cobey, Site #C915202). A third parcel, the Hanna Furnace Subparcel 3 site (#B00164) was remediated under the Environmental Restoration Program and is a municipal park. Until 1980, the site was once part of the rail yard that serviced the Hanna Furnace iron foundry and was the area in which the pig iron was often stored. The foundry and rail yard were constructed on what was previously marsh land that had been backfilled with steel and iron slag, presumably for other foundries in the Buffalo/Lackawanna area.
- 250 Delaware Ave (FKA 233 South Elmwood Avenue and 234 Delaware Avenue) (Site Number C915271) - This approximately 1.96 acre site is located in the entertainment district of Buffalo. A two story "L"- shaped building, referred to as the Delaware Court Building, built in 1925 for mixed commercial use occupied approximately one third of the site parcel. The Delaware Court Building was previously utilized as a mixed-use commercial building. A single-story building that was formerly utilized as a retail gasoline station with a convenience was also on the site.
Aerial view of 285-295 Niagara St site - 285-295 Niagara Street (Site Number C915259) - The site is located within the City of Buffalo, and is comprised of two adjoining parcels that total approximately 0.68 acres. The northern portion of the Site has a history of manufacturing and commercial operation, and was utilized as a carriage manufacturing operation and blacksmith shop, as well as a painting and varnishing operation since 1889. Around 1900, a bicycle manufacturing operation occupied the southern portion of the parcel including a machine shop and metal plating operations. The southern portion of the site was utilized as an automobile filling station and car wash, beginning around 1961. The building and gas station were demolished in the winter of 2014. Construction of a multi-story tower building for hotel, business office, retail use and a multi-story parking garage for the new building tenants.
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275 Franklin Street (Site Number C915208) See also 432 Pearl Street (Site Number C915237) - This brownfield site encompasses two contiguous parcels located at 275-277 Franklin Street (~0.13 acres), and 279 Franklin Street (~0.12 acres) in the City of Buffalo. The site is situated in an urban commercial district, currently used as a commercial surface parking lot approximately 0.25 acres in size. 279 Franklin Street: This lot was used for residential purposes from the late 1800s through the 1950s, and as a parking lot from the early 1980s to present. Previous use of the lot does not reveal any recognized environmental concerns. 275-277 Franklin Street: In the late 1800s, the lot contained a residence with a carriage shed facing Asbury Alley. By the 1950s, the residence was replaced with a commercial use building, and record information indicates the structure was used by a dry cleaning business from approximately 1951 through the early 2000s. The building on the parcel was demolished in 2004 by the applicant. The building area of the parcel was subsequently paved over and is currently being used as a commercial surface parking lot. Future development plans for the site and adjoining BCP site (C915237) consists of a hotel with conference and parking facilities.
Aerial view of Franklin Street site - 295 Maryland Street (Site Number C915242) - The site consists of 1,495 acres of contiguous property at 295 Maryland and 129 West Avenue. The Site was historically used in a residential and commercial capacity with the property at 295 Maryland Street most recently occupied by Lamar Advertising, Inc., a firm specializing in the sale of billboard advertising space and erection of billboard signs.
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300 Ohio Street (Site Number C915257) - The site is approximately 5 acres, located in a historically industrial area of the City of Buffalo. The majority of the site was utilized as a gasoline/diesel filling station and a petroleum distribution operation since at least 1925. Until the late 1990s portions of the site was used as an auto/truck gas and service station, dating back to 1925. The two buildings on the northern portion of the site along Chicago and Mackinaw Street (E&B Machinery and Central Manufacturing) operated a machine shop, trucking terminal and coffin and cooperage manufacturing operations. The site has been closed since the late 1990's. The main site features include a truck terminal, restaurant/office building, five pump islands with product dispensers, and three abandoned buildings. A majority of the site is paved. Grass covered areas are present in the northwest quadrant of the site.
Aerial view of 300 Ohio St site- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- 301 Connecticut (Site Number C915345) - The site is a 0.86-acre site located at 301 Connecticut Street in the City of Buffalo. The site consists of a vacant commercial structure, a single-story building owned by D'Youville College, and an asphalt parking lot.
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318 Urban Street (Site Number 915151) - This site is 2.5 acres located at 318 Urban Street in Buffalo. DEC has determined the cleanup requirements to address contamination under New York's State Superfund Program (SSF) have been or will be met.
Aerial view of 318 Urban Street site- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- 348 Langner Road (Site Number C915256) - The site is an approximate 2.6 acre parcel located at the corner of Langner and Ridge Road, and is currently used as a car wash and gas station. The site has been a gas station since the 1950's. Operations as a gas station have impacted on-site soil/fill and groundwater with VOCs and SVOCs pounds which will require remediation.
- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- 399 Ohio Street Site (Site Number C915287) - The 399 Ohio Street Site is located in an urban area of the City of Buffalo. The site is approximately 1/4 mile south of the intersection with Michigan Avenue. The site is currently improved with an approximately 10,000 square foot vehicle maintenance and office building, with the remainder of the site covered by asphalt and/or concrete. The site is bordered by the River Fest Park to the north, a rowing club to the south, Ohio Street to the east, and the Buffalo River to the west. The site is zoned for commercial use and currently used for various storage, recycling of road base materials from the Ohio Street re-construction project, and a maintenance building. The surrounding parcels are currently used for a combination of commercial, light industrial, and utility right-of-ways. The nearest residential area is 0.3 miles to the east. The site has been utilized for various industrial and commercial operations since at least 1889. Operations included rail lines, material handling and shipping equipment maintenance, and the use and storage of paints, solvents, thinners, greases, hydraulic oils and lubricants common among former commercial operations. More recently property uses have included the operation of bus and trucking terminal and maintenance operations, including the placement of underground storage tanks, aboveground storage tanks, and fuel dispensing pump(s).
- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
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432 Pearl Street (Site Number C915237) See also 275 Franklin Street (Site Number C915208) - The BCP site consists of two non-contiguous parcels in the City of Buffalo, located at 432 Pearl Street (0.45 acres) and at 267 Franklin Street (0.25 acres). The two parcels are adjacent to each other, but are separated by Asbury Alley. The site is situated in an urban commercial district. The site is adjacent to BCP site C915208. The 432 Pearl Street parcel is a paved commercial parking lot. The 267 Franklin Street parcel contains an occupied apartment building with a paved parking lot for the tenants. 432 Pearl Street: In the late 1800s, the northern half of the parcel consisted of four separate lots with residential buildings facing Pearl Street and carriage sheds facing Asbury Alley. By the 1940s, one of the residences was demolished and converted to a surface parking lot. The balance of these residences were demolished in subsequent years and also converted to surface parking lots. No known date concerning the demolition of the residences and conversion to parking lots is available or provided. Continuing southward along this parcel, in the late 1800s, two lots also contained residences and two lots contained apartment/rooming houses. By the mid 1920, the two residences were replaced by a retail commercial building (record use indicates that a heating equipment company occupied the building). By the 1940s, the commercial building and apartment/rooming houses were demolished and converted to surface parking. 267 Franklin Street: In the late 1800s through 1926, land use consisted of two separate apartment buildings on this parcel. The northern half of the 267 Pearl Street parcel contained a residential apartment building facing Franklin Street. The apartment building appears to have been demolished between 1925 and 1946. Future development plans for the site, in conjunction with BCP site C915208, consists of a hotel with conference and parking facilities.
Aerial view of Pearl Street site - 441 Ohio Street (Site Number C915285) - The Site is located in an urban area with an official street address at 9 South Street near the intersection of Ohio Street in the City of Buffalo. The site is a 1.78-acre portion of a larger 2.25 acre parcel. The land surface is only several feet above the water level of the adjoining Buffalo River and is situated within the 100 year floodplain of the river. The non-BCP portion of the 2.25 acre parcel is considered lands under water along the Buffalo River. This area may have been previously dredged to allow docking of commercial freight ships and barges. Current improvements consist of a recently constructed five story apartment building (2017). Previous improvements on the site consisted of a 500 x 100 foot 2-story wood framed building that occupied most of the site. The building was in an extremely dilapidated condition and had been condemned by the City of Buffalo Building Department. The building structure and most of the foundation was demolished in Spring 2015. A stone foundation wall abutting the Buffalo River was retained to be used as a retaining wall and historic riverfront architectural remnant desired by the local preservation community. The balance of the site is mostly paved or covered with gravel with some minor vegetated strip areas.
- 500 Seneca Street (Site Number C915273) - The 1.87 acre site is located in an urban, mixed-use, commercial and residential area. The site is comprised of a 328,000 square foot multi-story building with a small open lot on the western site of the parcel. The building was constructed beginning in 1901 with various additions and expansions. The building is listed in the National Registry of Historic Places. The site originally housed the F.N. Burt Company, which utilized the property for box manufacturing from original building construction in the early 1900's until 1959. Between approximately 1968 and 1980, Wolkind Bros, Inc., a clothing rental company, utilized the property. Between 1986 and 2004, the site was used for manufacturing, warehousing and shipping operations. The site has been largely vacant and underutilized since manufacturing operations ceased in 2004.
- 837 Bailey Ave (Site Number C915298) - The property is located in an urban environment and consists of two parcels, 837 Bailey Ave. and 79 Dingens St. The Buffalo River is located approximately 0.75 miles south of the property and the I-190 (Niagara Thruway) is located approximately 0.5 miles east of the property. The 837 Bailey Ave. parcel consists of one approximately 4,400 square foot building and a vacant lot consisting of random mounds of soil, wood, plastic, auto parts, and construction debris. The 79 Dingens St parcel consists of a railroad and undeveloped land that is predominantly grass/lightly wooded.
- 905 Elmwood Avenue (Site Number C915288) - The site is located at 905 Elmwood Avenue in the City of Buffalo. The site is largely comprised of a convenience and automobile service station building, three underground storage tanks (USTs), fuel dispensers, and associated canopy, and asphalt/concrete parking areas. The site is zoned commercial and is occupied by a gas station. The site has a long history as a petroleum filling and automobile service station since at least 1964. The site has contained at least eight underground storage tanks since 1964, three tanks remain. Additional hazardous/regulated materials and/or wastes associated with automobile repair activities were likely used, stored and/or generated on-site including gasoline, diesel, No. 2 fuel oil, kerosene, propane, motor oil, and waste oils. DEC Spills database includes four spill records associated with the site since 2002, including the one remaining open spill file which is related to a 2008 tank test failure.
- 945 Kenmore Ave (Site Number C915286) - The site is located at 945 Kenmore Avenue at the intersections of South Irving Terrace, Kenmore Avenue, and Fairmount Avenue in the Town of Tonawanda, Erie County. The site consists of one 0.552 acre parcel which is developed with a one single-story structure that was constructed in 1949. Over three-quarters of the site is currently covered with asphaltic pavement and the remnants of a concrete slab. The site is currently vacant. The site was utilized as a gasoline station from at least 1950 to 1986 and as an automotive repair facility from at least 1958 to 2010; such operations included automotive body repair work from at least 1994 to 2010.
- January 2017 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- October 2016 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- June 2015 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- Interim Remedial Measure Work Plan (50 page PDF)
- November 2014 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- Brownfield Cleanup Program Application (12 page PDF)
- Citizen Participation Plan (17 page PDF)
- Remedial Investigation Work Plan (49 page PDF)
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1050-1088 Niagara Street (Site Number C915277) - This site is located in the City of Buffalo. The site is comprised of three adjoining parcels and is approximately 2.7 acres in size. The parcels are 1050 Niagara Street, 1054 Niagara Street and 1088 Niagara Street. The site is currently zoned for Light Industrial, but is used for commercial use. The 1050 Niagara Street parcel was used for commercial/industrial operations since 1889. Historic Sanborn records indicate that two 25,000 gallon tanks, likely containing fuel oil and/or printing related solvents were located in the basement of the building. Lithographic printing operation historically utilized VOC-based solvent routinely for printing cleaning, degreasing and ink-solvents. The 1088 Niagara Street parcel (northern portion of the site) formerly included the International Brewing Company and American Gelatine Corp. operated on-site in the early 1900s. Records from 1925 indicate Hygrade Oil Co. utilized the site as a service station and fuel distribution facility, including multiple petroleum storage and distribution tanks, gasoline pump house(s), and tank wagon loading house, which was historically located abutting the current 1050 Niagara Street building, from at least the 1920s through the 1960s. Gulf Oil Corporation and Hygrade Petroleum Co. were identified as on-site operators from approximately the 1920s through 1960.
Aerial view of 1050-1088 Niagara Street site - 1111 Elmwood Avenue (Site Number C915319) - The site is located on the corner of Elmwood and Forest Avenues in a highly developed mixed use commercial and residential area of the City of Buffalo. The site currently has 12 multi-story multi-use structures surrounded by asphalt and concrete driveways and small green space areas. Based on a review of historical maps, the site has had a similar configuration for the past 100 years. The area was initially developed for multi-family residential. Over the ensuing years, the lower level of some of the individual residential units transitioned to commercial use. Fill material present is impacted with certain elevated semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) and metals.
- 1318 Niagara Street (Site Number E915213) - The 1318 Niagara Street site had been used as a brewery for at least eighty years. The City of Buffalo acquired the site through foreclosure and in 2006 began to demolish structures. During demolition, USTs were discovered. The soils adjacent to the USTs, along with soils in the vicinity of the former brewery furnace, were contaminated with PCBs and various volatile organic compounds. A previous site owner's improper storage and/or handling of oil wastes contaminated the property.
- February 2014 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- Record of Decision (38 page PDF)
- June 2012 Fact Sheet (3 page PDF)
- August 2010 Fact Sheet (2 page PDF)
- March 2010 IRM Work Plan (26 page PDF)
- September 2009 Fact Sheet (2 page PDF)
- July 2009 Preliminary Site Investigation Report (6 page PDF)
Aerial view of 1360 Niagara Street site - 1360 Niagara Street (Site Number C915302) - This 1.83-acre site is located in the City of Buffalo. The site is relatively flat and includes one un-occupied four-story commercial building, a small attached storage structure to the north, and paved parking lots. The site is currently inactive and is zoned commercial use. The surrounding parcels are currently used for a combination of light industrial, commercial, residential and utility right-of-ways. Until 2016 the site was used for residential purposes, a lubricating factory, planning mill, pharmaceutical production (Mentholatum Company) and most recently leather operation (Garrett Leather).
- January 2018 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF)
- Remedial Investigation/Interim Remedial Measures and Alternatives Analysis Report (64 page PDF)
- Decision Document (13 page PDF)
- Final Engineering Report (43 page PDF)
- Remedial Investigation/Interim Remedial Measures Work Plan (32 page PDF)
- February 2017 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF
- Work Plan (32 page PDF)
- 1550 Harlem Road Site (Site Number C915321) - The approximately 0.43-acre site located in a mixed residential/commercial business area in the Town of Cheektowaga. The site currently is vacant with no structures. The site was used as a gasoline station from at least 1950 to 1970s and then a nursery/garden center from the mid-1980s to early 2014.
- 1585 Hertel Avenue Site (Site Number C915328) - The site is a 0.18-acre parcel in a mixed residential/commercial business area in the City of Buffalo. The site currently is vacant. Historically, the site has been used as a gasoline service station and auto repair facility since the 1930s. The site has an extensive history of underground storage tanks and automotive lift stations, which are associated with previous operations at the site.
- 2424 Hamburg Turnpike (Site Number C915296) - This 1.04-acre site is located in the City of Lackawanna. The site is relatively flat, mostly covered with asphalt, and includes a former auto repair building with in-ground hydraulic lifts and a small storage shed. The Site is currently inactive and zoned commercial/industrial. From 1957-1994 the Site was utilized as an automobile filling and service station. Three 10,000-gallon underground storage tanks (USTs) associated with the filling station were closed/removed in 1994.
- 3021 Orchard Park Road (Site Number C915289) - The site is located in the Town of Orchard Park. The site is bordered by Orchard Park and Michael Roads on the west and north respectively, and commercial properties and Union Road to the east. A single story, multiple-tenant, commercial building occupies the eastern half of the 5.06-acre site. The building and an asphalt parking lot cover nearly the entire site. The site is currently active and is zoned for commercial use. Between 1979 and 2008, the building housed a dry cleaning shop in two of the building units, addressed as 3035 and 3039 Orchard Park Road, near the south end of the building. The dry cleaning operations appear to have led to the site contamination. Other current and former tenants included discount, grocery, drug, paint and antique stores as well as a bank, credit union, hair salon and a photocopy/printing shop.
- January 2016 Fact Sheet (6 page PDF)
- June 2015 Fact Sheet (6 page PDF)
- Draft Remedial Investigation/Alternative Analysis Report (Document 1 of 3) (66 page PDF)
- Draft Remedial Investigation/Alternative Analysis Report (Document 2 of 3) (31 page PDF)
- Draft Remedial Investigation/Alternative Analysis Report (Document 3 of 3) (17 page PDF)
- 4630 River Road (Site Number C915258) - The public is invited to comment on a draft work plan being reviewed by DEC to perform environmental investigation work at the 4360 River Road Site in Tonawanda. At one point, the site contained a pond that received storm water from the former Ashland Petroleum Company that was located on adjacent property to the west. The use of this pond was reportedly discontinued in 1982 when operations at the Ashland Petroleum facility ceased.
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5565 River Road (Site Number 915239) - The 5565 River Road Site consists of approximately 24 acres of a single parcel located at 5565 River Road in the Town of Tonawanda, Erie County, New York. The site is heavily vegetated by a mixture of trees, tall grass, scrub brush and shrubs. Historic information concerning the site is extremely limited. Clusters of 55-gallon drums were observed on the ground surface at six different areas of the site. The majority of these drums were empty, rusted and in poor condition. In October 2012, the site was listed as a Class 2 Site in the New York State Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites.
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American Linen Supply Company (Site Number C915241) - The Former American Linen Supply Company site, located at 822 Seneca Street in Buffalo, is approximately 2.921 acres and is currently vacant. Suspected and known contaminants at this site are petroleum, chlorinated solvents, VOCs and metals. These contaminants are impacting the soil and groundwater.
Aerial view of American Linen site - Ameron (Site Number 915133) - The Ameron site encompasses approximately 3.2 acres in the City of Buffalo. The site is located in a mixed use (residential/industrial/commercial) area. From approximately 1960 to 1982, the site had been used for the production of protective coating materials involving the use of solvents and other chemicals. Environmental contamination has impacted the site's subsurface soil and groundwater. Contaminants of concern included PCBs, lead, and VOCs.
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ARO Corporation (Site Number 915147) - This site is located at 3695 Broadway in the Town of Cheektowaga. Aro Corporation was a manufacturer of life support equipment, cryogenic storage vessels and breathing regulators. Manufacturing operations ceased in 1996 and the main building was demolished. Prior to purchasing the ARO facility, Ingersoll-Rand conducted an environmental assessment of the property. The assessment was later followed by a Remedial Investigation of the site due to trichloroethene (TCE) contamination found in soils beneath the site and in the site ground water. Ground water beneath two residential properties immediately west of the ARO facility had also been impacted. In 1997, Ingersoll-Rand purchased these two adjacent properties. Site Monitoring is being conducted under an approved O&M Plan.
Aerial view of ARO site - Bengart and Memel (Site Number 915115) - This site in the City of Buffalo is contaminated with chemicals called PCBs, which resulted from operations involving the recovery of metals and metal alloys. The site is being addressed under the SSF.
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Buffalo China (Site Number C915209) - The Buffalo China facility in the City of Buffalo formerly manufactured china and mirrors, resulting in site contamination. The site, which is currently owned and operated by Niagara Ceramics Corp., occupies approximately 8 acres. It is situated in a mixed-use community consisting of various industrial and commercial facilities, residential properties, and railroad tracks. The nearest body of water is the Buffalo River, located approximately ¼ mile south and east of the site.
Buffalo China site- December 2012 Fact Sheet (3 page PDF)
- May 2011 Decision Document (20 page PDF)
- September 2010 Draft Remedial Action Work Plan (89 page PDF)
- September 2010 Remedial Investigation Report (270 page PDF)
- September 2010 Alternatives Analysis Report (149 page PDF, 6.22 MB)
- March 2009 Soil Vapor Intrusion Investigation Work Plan (57 page PDF)
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Buffalo Color (Site Numbers C915230, C915231, C915232) - The Buffalo Color site occupies approximately 42 acres of land adjacent to the Buffalo River. The former Buffalo Color Corporation and its predecessors produced dyes for blue jeans and other organic chemicals for over 100 years. Buffalo Color Corporation filed for bankruptcy in 2003. The company's chemical production contaminated site soils and groundwater.
Buffalo Color site - Buffalo Forge (Site Number C915280) - The site is in the City of Buffalo and is comprised of seven parcels each having a separate address, though the site is often identified as being located at 490 Broadway. The site is currently vacant land, zoned Commercial and Industrial. Grass vegetation is present in the central and western portions of the property over the footprints of former buildings and asphalt former parking areas are present in the eastern portion of the property. The main site was occupied by the Buffalo Forge Co. from the late 1880s through the early 1990s, which included a machine shop, blacksmith/foundry, and E.N. Cook's Distillery. The northern portion of the site includes a former filling station, an apparent residential gasoline tank, a furniture repair structure, several dwellings and a garage. In the 1980s, the entire site appears to be utilized by Buffalo Forge Co., primarily as a foundry, machine shop, and storage/warehousing facility. Most recent operations included manufacturing heavy duty industrial air moving equipment, such as fans, blowers and cabinets. The site buildings were demolished in 2006 and 2007.
- Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park - Parcel 4 (Site Number 915193A) - The site is listed as a Class "2" site in the State Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Sites. A Class 2 site represents a significant threat to public health or the environment; action is required. The Parcel 4 site is a 20 acre, vacant parcel located on the western
edge of the BLCP, in the northwest corner of the former Hanna Furnace parcel and now matches
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Buffalo River Restoration - DEC, USEPA, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, Honeywell, and USACE are working together in partnership to restore the Buffalo River. September 2013 Update: The partnership will begin environmental dredging of the Buffalo River (2 page PDF) this fall. Contaminated sediment close to the banks of the river will be removed, limited areas capped, and habitat restored.
Aerial view of Buffalo River Restoration site - Crossroads at Genesee (Site Number C915338) - The site is approximately 1.92 acres in size and is located at 19 Doat Street and 9 Landsdale Place in Buffalo.Historically, the property was utilized for textile manufacture and dyeing, optical lens manufacture, bedding/mattress manufacture and most recently automotive repair and tire sales.
- Depew Village Landfill (Site Number 915105) - The Depew Village Landfill operated between 1940 and 1961. During operations it processed municipal waste, as well as hazardous wastes from unknown sources. Contamination, particularly lead, has impacted the landfill property, the adjacent stream bank, sediments in Cayuga Creek, and a portion of the slope under Zurbrick Road.
- OU 1 - February 2008 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- OU 1 - January 2008 Proposed Remedial Action Plan (27 page PDF)
- OU 1 - March 2008 Record of Decision (52 page PDF)
- OU 2 - November 2009 Fact Sheet (2 page PDF)
- OU 2 - October 2009 Proposed Remedial Action Plan (22 page PDF)
- OU 2 - December 2009 Record of Decision (35 page PDF)
- ENRX Annex (Site Number C915325) - The site is in an urban area in the City of Buffalo. The site consists of one parcel measuring approximately 0.27 acres, with a street address of 50 Hannah Street (also known as 737 New Babcock Street). The site is located adjacent to and south of the ENRX, Inc. - Voelker Analysis Site (C915150; see listing below) which is located at 766 New Babcock Street. The ENRX Site was issued a Certificate of Competition (COC) in December 2015 and is currently in the site management phase. The site consists of a gravel/asphalt pavement parking lot, enclosed within a fence which surrounds the adjacent Voelker Analysis site, as well as the vacant scrap yard, adjacent to both sites. Historically, the site was occupied by a hide processing facility and an electric utility substation. The site is currently used as a parking lot for the adjacent scrap yard facility.
- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon, in the pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- ENRX Inc - Voelker Analysis (Site Number C915150) - The 0.85 acre site is located at 766 New Babcock Street, in the eastern portion of the City of Buffalo. The Site 0.85-acre site consists of a warehouse/maintenance building with an attached office, fenced perimeter and parking lot, outdoor equipment storage area and two entrance driveways with electronic security gates. Voelker Analysis was a small, permitted hazardous waste facility for the processing and recovery of chlorinated organic solvents. The facility handled waste solvents such as methylene chloride, trichloroethylene, perchloroethylene and 1-1-1-trichloroethane. The facility was acquired by ENRX in August of 1987, which moved the solvent recovery operations from the wood frame building into the adjoining brick structure. In 1989, the facility's hazardous waste recovery permit was revoked and the facility was abandoned. Between 1990 and 1992, USEPA removed nearly 500 drums of chlorinated solvent wastes that had been left in the facility. Between 1998 and 1999, the older wood frame portion of the facility was demolished by a subsequent owner.
- February 2018 Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Site Classification Notice (2 page PDF)
- July 2015 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF)
- May 2015 Draft Remedial Investigation and Alternative Analysis Report (Document 1 of 5) (105 page PDF)
- May 2015 Draft Remedial Investigation and Alternative Analysis Report (Document 2 of 5) (27 page PDF)
- May 2015 Draft Remedial Investigation and Alternative Analysis Report (Document 3 of 5) (13 page PDF)
- May 2015 Draft Remedial Investigation and Alternative Analysis Report (Document 4 of 5) (8 page PDF)
- May 2015 Draft Remedial Investigation and Alternative Analysis Report (Document 5 of 5) (29 page PDF)
- ExxonMobil (Site Number C915201) - The ExxonMobil Former Buffalo Terminal site was historically used for petroleum refining, storage and distribution. Operable Unit 4 (OU-4, subject of the current Alternatives Analysis Report (AAR)) is one of five operable units comprising the entire site. OU-4, which is currently owned by Buckeye Terminals LLC., occupies approximately 16.6 acres. It is bordered to the south by the Buffalo River and is currently utilized for the storage of refined petroleum fuels. The area of OU-4 was created in the early 1900s to realign the Buffalo River. It consists of urban fill and municipal waste from a former City of Buffalo landfill. ExxonMobil purchased the OU-4 area in 1951 and constructed storage tanks in 1953. DEC has determined that the contamination in OU-4 poses a significant threat to the environment.

Bethlehem Steel site
- Former Bethlehem Steel (Site Number 915009) - Bethlehem Steel, in the City of Lackawanna, was once a major engine of economic productivity in Western New York. Over the years the complex grew to over 1600 acres. Environmental contamination varies across the property with 400 acres listed on the Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal (SSF) Sites. This area is being addressed under the State's Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Action Program. An additional 500 acres are being remediated under the BCP by the current site owner, Tecumseh Redevelopment (see Tecumseh entries below).
- March 2017 Final Statement of Basis Part 1 of 2 (PDF)
- March 2017 Final Statement of Basis Part 2 of 2 (PDF, 5 MB)
- February 2017 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- June 2015 Final Statement of Basis (Document 1 of 3) (23 page PDF)
- June 2015 Final Statement of Basis (Document 2 of 3) (17 page PDF)
- June 2015 Final Statement of Basis (Document 3 of 3) (8 page PDF)
- May 2015 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- July 2009 Fact Sheet - PDF Version (2 page PDF)
- Focused CMS Text (50 page PDF)
- Focused CMS Tables (13 page PDF)
- Figure 1 (1 page PDF)
- Figure 2 (1 page PDF)
- Figure 3 (1 page PDF)
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- Figure 7 (1 page PDF)
- Figure 8 (1 page PDF)
- July 2009 Public Presentation - Part I (8 page PDF)
- July 2009 Public Presentation - Part II (4 page PDF)
- July 2009 Public Presentation - Part III (20 page PDF)
- July 2009 Public Presentation - Part IV (16 page PDF)
- Former Bisonite Paint Company (Site Number C915010) - The site is 0.8-acres consisting of two parcels located at 2266 and 2268 Military Road in the Town of Tonawanda. Historically, the Bisonite Paint Company manufactured water and oil-based paints on the property from 1947 to 1991. Bisonite Paint Company occupied four parcels that are currently used for commercial rental space and self-storage. The two parcels to the south of the site were remediated in 1996 under the VCP. The northern two parcels (2266 and 2268) comprise the site and will be investigated under the BCP.
- Former Buffalo Service Station (Site Number C915194A) - This site is approximately 0.5 acres and is located in the City of Buffalo. The site includes a portion of Fourth Street and an area underneath the NYS Thruway (I-190) overpass. The I-190 overpass area is fenced on the east and west sides. The area underneath the overpass is covered with gravel. An 11.5 - foot diameter sewer runs parallel and beneath the northbound lane of Thruway overpass. A high voltage electrical line is buried in the site area. The site area is being used as roads and right of way for roads and utilities. The site was historically the location of the confluence between the former Wilkeson Slip and the former Erie Canal. The Wilkeson Slip was contaminated with coal tar waste from the former Buffalo Service Station (BSS), a manufactured gas plant (MGP). The Wilkeson Slip was filled in between 1895 and 1915 and the Erie Canal was filled in the 1930's. The BSS was operated by various companies from 1848 to 1948. National Fuel Gas owned the BSS property until 2005. During remedial action at the BSS site in 2006, a large portion of the Wilkeson Slip was cleaned up by Duke Realty. In 2012, a sheet pile was placed along the eastern side of Fourth Street in the Slip and the remaining portion of the Wilkeson Slip within Duke Realty property was cleaned up.
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Former Doro Dry Cleaners (Site Number 915238) - DEC will soon begin a detailed environmental study at the Former Doro Dry Cleaners located at 3460-3466 Genesee Street, Cheektowaga. The site is located in a commercial and suburban setting, near Union Road and NYS Route 33. The site is listed as a Class "2" site in the State Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Sites (list of State Superfund sites). A Class 2 site represents a significant threat to public health or the environment; action is required. The site is zoned for commercial use and currently inactive, had been used primarily for dry cleaning for approximately 40 years. Prior uses that have led to site contamination include the storage and use of chlorinated solvent for the dry cleaning facility.
Doro Dry Cleaners site- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- Former Dowell Facility (Site Number V00410) - This Voluntary Cleanup Program (VCP) site is located at 3311-3313 Walden Avenue in the Village of Depew. The facility resides within a mixed residential and industrial/commercial area and consists of two parcels. The relatively flat, currently vacant property is triangular shaped, covering approximately 1.78 acres. The entire site is zoned industrial/commercial. Former activities at the site included servicing industrial facilities and limited oilfield-related project. Dowell discontinued facility operations in the late 1980s and the facility was permanently closed. The Volunteers entered the site into DEC's VCP on February 26, 2001, under Voluntary Cleanup Agreement (No. B9-0586-00-10).
- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
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Former Mobil Station (Site Number C915260) - DEC is reviewing cleanup documents for the Former Mobil Service Station 99-MST located at 979-1001 Main Street, Buffalo, Erie County. The site borders with Goodrich Street on north, High Street on south and a parking lot for the Buffalo General Hospital on the east. The land use in the project area is characterized as urban mixed use, primarily commercial and community services. The community services include public and private medical and hospital facilities. DEC accepted written comments about the proposed Remedial Investigation and IRM work plan for 30 days, from August 29 through September 29, 2012. This brownfield site is 1.7 acres with four vacant parcels. The site has sat vacant for less than 10 years. From the 1940s to 1982 the site was operated as a gas station.
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Gastown (Site Number 915171) -The Gastown site is the location of a former MGP. Prior to the introduction of natural gas and electric lights, these plants processed coal and petroleum to make a combustible gas used for cooking, lighting and heating. The gas production left an oily mixture called coal tar that impacted soils at and surrounding the site. The site is part of the VCP.
Aerial view of Gastown site - GE Buffalo Service Shop (Site Number 915244) - The Notice of Proposed Final Corrective Measures for GE Buffalo Service Shop facility, USEPA ID NYD067539940, was issued on November 16, 2011. The Fact Sheet for the GE facility includes a brief summary of the site investigations, interim corrective measures performed and the proposed Final Corrective Measures. The Statement of Basis (PDF) (18 pages) contains a summary of investigations, describes other remedial alternatives considered and describes the proposed final corrective measures for the facility. The facility is located in the Town of Tonawanda, Erie County, New York. The Notice and the Fact Sheet for GE Buffalo Service Shop (PDF) (5 pages) is available on the web.
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Greif (Site Number V00334) - From 1948 to 1985, the Greif site was owned and operated by Continental Fiber Drum and Continental Can Corporation. Historical manufacturing operations at this time consisted of the production of fiber drums but also included production of metal lids and rims used in the fiber drums. The production of the metal lids and rims involved varnishing and degreasing operations. These operations were the source of the VOCs that contaminated soil, soil vapor, and ground water in portions of the site. Greif acquired the Site in 1998. It continues to be used for the manufacture of fiber drums and associated products. The facility located at 2122 Colvin Boulevard in the Town of Tonawanda.
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HARBORcenter (Site Number C915270) - The public is invited to comment on a draft work plan being reviewed by DEC to investigate the Webster Block (brownfield site) located at 75 Main Street, Buffalo, Erie County.
HARBORcenter site - Hanna Furnace Parcel 3 - See Union Ship Canal
- Highland Plaza (Site Number C915293) - This site consists of approximately 0.7 acres at 215 Highland Parkway in the Town of Tonawanda. The site is approximately 250 feet long by 100 feet wide. Approximately 50% of the property is occupied by a strip plaza, with the northern half of the property covered by an asphalt parking lot. The building is presently subdivided into nine commercial businesses. The site is occupied by a strip plaza and is zoned for commercial use. The proposed future use of the site is commercial. In 1928 the site was not developed, although the property was subdivided into 17 parcels for future residential development. By 1950 the site was fully developed into a strip plaza. One of the former tenants in the plaza was High Park Dry Cleaners, which closed in March 2010. In 2014, a Phase II Environmental Site Investigation (ESI) was completed to evaluate the property. During the ESI, 12 soil borings were completed throughout the property. In addition, a soil vapor intrusion study was completed in the former dry cleaner tenant space. Soil samples collected from under the concrete floor of the former dry cleaner contained Cis-1,2-dichloroethene, tetrachloroethene, and trichloroethene. Surface soil samples contained tetrachloroethene. Soil vapor contained elevated concentrations of dichloroethene, tetrachloroethene, and trichloroethene.
- Iroquois Gas/Westwood Pharmaceuticals Terrestrial (Site Number 915141A) - The superfund site is approximately 8.8 acres at 100 Forest Avenue in the City of Buffalo. The site is zoned for industrial use and is currently leased to a trucking firm for warehousing operations. Surrounding properties include a mix of commercial, light and heavy industrial, and residential parcels. The site operated as a manufactured gas plant from approximately 1897 through 1955 with continued gas storage on site until 1972. Iroquois Gas buried waste materials such as heavy tars, sludges, coal, coke, and demolition debris. In 1972, Westwood Pharmaceutical found soil and groundwater contamination during construction in 1985 consisting of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX). DEC listed the site in the Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites in 1989.
- Jefferson Avenue Apartments (Site Number C915317) - The site includes two parcels and is located in a highly developed residential and commercial area of the City of Buffalo. The site is currently unoccupied and includes vacant land and two vacant buildings on the northern parcel. Beginning in at least 1893 until the 2000s, past uses on the site include residential as well as a variety of commercial operations with two historic automotive repair operations, a dealership service department, a trucking operation, paints and varnish/oils operations, sheet metal works, and a machine shop operation. Fill materials located across the site are impacted with PAHs and/or metals.

Lackawanna Incinerator
- Lackawanna Incinerator (Site Number 915206) - This is located at 2960 South Park Ave. in the City of Lackawanna. The parcel was first used beginning in 1927 as the municipal incinerator, continuing until 1980. The site is listed as a Class "2" site in the State Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Sites.
- Leica (Site Number 915156) - The Leica SSF site, once home to companies that produced optical equipment, was remediated beginning in 1999. However, contamination continues to impact groundwater in the bedrock below the site. Leica Inc. is implementing ongoing remedial measures and will conduct additional investigation activities to determine if vapors are being released from the contaminated groundwater.
- Main and East Balcom Street (Site Number C915306) - The site is located in an urban area at the corner of Main Street and East Balcom Street in the City of Buffalo. It currently has a 6-story commercial building. The remainder of the site is currently vacant, primarily gravel-fill, vegetation, and asphalt-covered land. Planned reuse of the site is as a mixed-use residential development (apartments and retail space). Past uses of the site as service/filling stations, chemical distribution, warehousing and storage, and use of hazardous/regulated materials has contaminated the site. Multiple DEC Spill incidents have been reported for the site. Former uses and site operations have impacted on-site soils with certain elevated volatile organic compounds (VOCs), semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs), and metals.
- Main and Hertel (Site Number C915318) - This 4.9-acre site is located in the City of Buffalo. The property contains small mounded and low areas created by filling that occurred in the past. The site has historically been used for industrial metal finishing and plating since at least the 1970s, with four buildings on the property. The planned use is student housing with ancillary commercial and retail uses.
- MOD-PAC CORP. (Site Number C915314) - The site is a 20.03-acre site located in an urban area in the City of Buffalo. The site is relatively flat and includes an approximately 500,000 square foot manufacturing facility (occupied) and vacant land on the southern 1/3 of the property. Various debris fill, and soil piles are present throughout the vacant area. A railroad spur has historically traversed the site, extending into the facility's courtyard. The site is currently active and zoned for residential, commercial, and industrial use. Until the 1950s the entire site was used for the manufacturing of radiators and after the 1970s has been utilized for various manufacturing purposes including warehousing,
box, and product packaging. One DEC Spill was identified within BCP limits listed on 8/9/1995 due to oil water and sludge in vicinity of railroad siding. Four underground storage tanks (USTs) were ultimately discovered. One of the tanks were removed and three tanks were closed in place due to proximity
to utilities. - National Fuel Gas - Buffalo Service Center (Site Number V00362) - The property is located in the City of Buffalo near the Waterfront School and HealthNow Headquarters Building with restoration work completed during June, July and August of 2012, while Waterfront School is on summer break. Some restoration work may be completed in early September. The area being excavated is a small section of the former Wilkeson Slip. The former Wilkeson Slip area was part of the Erie Canal system that was filled many decades ago. The materials used to fill the slip may have contained oily residues and other hydrocarbons that exceed today's cleanup standards.
- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
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National Fuel Gas - Mineral Springs MPG (Site Number V00195) - The 80 acre site is located at 365 Mineral Springs Road in the Town of West Seneca in a mixed industrial and residential area along the border between the City of Buffalo and the Town of West Seneca. The facility is located at the site of a former MGP facility. Since its original use as a MGP, the property has been redeveloped into a major equipment maintenance and natural gas distribution center.The remedial work was completed in June 2001. Approximately 32,000 tons of material was removed from the site.
Aerial view of Mineral Springs site- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- Niagara Transformer (Site Number C915234) - The Niagara Transformer site encompasses approximately 3 acres and is located on Dale Road on the southern side of the intersection of Dale and Anderson Roads in a predominantly industrial and commercial area of Cheektowaga, New York. The site has been vacant for over 30 years and was previously used for industrial or commercial purposes, including railroad siding and salvage yard activities. Previous releases of PCBs have impacted the site. Niagara Transformer intends to develop the property for manufacturing purposes.
- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
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NL Industries (Site Number C915200) - The former National Lead Company (NL Industries) operated at this site from 1936 to 1972. Past activities (starting in 1892) have included brass foundry operations, smelting operations, and the processing of Babbitt (alloy of tin, copper, and antimony). These historical activities contaminated the site with metals, particularly lead. DEC has completed cleanup activities at the site. USEPA is addressing contamination that migrated offsite.
NL Industries site - NOCO #S41 (Site Number C915211) - This site, located at Fillmore Avenue and Genesee Street in the City of Buffalo, was once a retail gasoline station. The site had been impacted by petroleum contamination. NOCO entered the BCP to address contamination. Cleanup actions successfully addressed contamination, and DEC has certified that cleanup goals have been achieved. The COC was issued in December 2009.
- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- Northtown Inc (Site Number C915292) - The site is located in the Northtown Plaza in a suburban area in the Town of Amherst. The Site consists of three Areas of Interest (AOIs) comprising approximately 1.5 acres of an approximately 18.6 acre parcel of land on which the Northtown Plaza is located. The site is located in a Commercial Zoning District and is currently used as a commercial-retail plaza. The plaza was developed between the mid-1950s and mid-1980s, when it reached a configuration similar to what exists today. The current parcel was originally 23 separate parcels. Prior to development of the shopping center, the 23 parcels were agricultural land with no physical improvements. Construction of the first buildings commenced in 1952.
- December 2016 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- December 2015 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- June 2015 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- Interim Remedial Measures Work Plan (Document 1 of 6) (27 page PDF)
- Interim Remedial Measures Work Plan (Document 2 of 6) (1 page PDF)
- Interim Remedial Measures Work Plan (Document 3 of 6) (2 page PDF)
- Interim Remedial Measures Work Plan (Document 4 of 6) (2 page PDF)
- Interim Remedial Measures Work Plan (Document 5 of 6) (28 page PDF)
- Interim Remedial Measures Work Plan (Document 6 of 6) (34 page PDF)
- Pierce Arrow Business Center (Site C915312) - This 2.37 acre site consists of two contiguous parcels (155-157 Chandler Street) in the City of Buffalo. The 155 Chandler parcel has one 65,000 square foot building which
surrounds a large 22,000 square foot brick and gravel courtyard. The 157 Chandler parcel is a vacant
gravel lot. The site has been used for machining, gas manufacturing, and manufacturing since the early 1900s. The structure was originally constructed in 1907 and utilized as a factory occupied by Linde Air Products until the early 1950s. Bell Aircraft Corp. was located at the site in the early/mid 1950s. In 1958, the building was purchased by Donald Rosen and utilized for G & R Machinery (machine shop) from approximately 1959 through at least the 1990s. - Pierce Arrow Site (Site Number C915308) - This is a 2.85-acre site located in the City of Buffalo. The site is relatively flat and includes three unoccupied buildings surrounded by a small parking lot and a private driveway. The site is currently inactive, and is zoned for commercial and industrial use. Until 1938 the site was used for administrative and manufacture/testing of automobile engines. Prior uses that appear to have led to site contamination include automobile testing/manufacturing, aboveground and underground storage tanks used for oil and gasoline, coal storage, tool and die manufacturing, cleaning compound manufacturing, garage, brazing, heat treatment, machine shop, and dry cleaning.
- Pilgrim Village Redevelopment/Campus Square (Site Number C915294) - The site is located in an urban area, in the City of Buffalo and contains a mix of buildings consisting of multi-family apartments/town homes asphalt parking/driveway areas, sidewalks and landscaped lawn areas. The W.A. Eckert Manufacturing Company was located inside the NW corner of the proposed Brownfield Site from approximately 1884 to at least 1925 and produced aluminum, brass, and copper specialties. An auto repair shop operated just off the northwestern edge of the proposed Brownfield Site from approximately 1931 to 1968. A gas tank is shown in historical records for that auto repair shop, but there are no records of a tank removal.
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Polymer Applications (Site Number 915044) - Polymer Applications in the Town of Tonawanda operated from 1968 through 1988. Its activities included the manufacture of phenolic resins, phenol-formaldehyde resins, plastics, and various rubber products for use in the automotive, paint, and coatings industries. A major fire in 1988 released a number of chemicals, and cleanup efforts since then have been ongoing. Remediation started in February 2011 and has been completed at this site.
Polymer Applications site - Queen City Landing (Site Number C915304) - This site is located in the City of Buffalo just north of the Port of Buffalo Small Boat Harbor and Tifft Nature Preserve. The majority of the site is surrounded by Lake Erie (Buffalo Outer Harbor). The rest of the site consists of a large manufacturing building, a small office building, two connected parking lots, and a former water treatment facility.
- Scott Aviation Area 1 (Site Number C915233) - Scott Aviation in Lancaster, NY produced supplied-air systems and landing plates for small airplanes from the early 1950s to 1973. The brownfield site, contaminated from the manufacturing of these products, sits adjacent to Plant 1 of the Scott Aviation facility. The current owner of the site, Scott Technologies, will conduct an environmental investigation to determine the extent of contamination in site soil, groundwater, and possibly soil vapor, and develop a plan to address the contamination.
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Seneca Street (Site Number C915228) - The 1132 and 1146 Seneca Street site encompasses approximately 4.2 acres and is located on the northern/northeastern side of Seneca Street in a predominantly mixed industrial, commercial and residential area of South Buffalo, New York. The Site has been used for industrial purposes, including an electrical transformer repair facility. Previous releases of PCBs have impacted the Site. Flexo Transparent Inc/RSB Enterprises LLC purchased the Site property and voluntarily entered the BCP to clean up the Site for expansion of their adjacent manufacturing facility.
Seneca St site- Documents are located on DEC's new Online Document Repository: DECinfo Locator (click the orange Excavator icon; in the new pop up window, click the link for Document Folder)
- Silos at Elk Street (Site Number C915309) - The 50 Elk Street Site is located in a highly developed residential, commercial, and industrial area of the City of Buffalo. The site sits at the corner of Elk and Fulton Streets. Elk Street wraps around the western and southern portion of the site. The approximately 1.9-acre site has a vacant multi-story former industrial building and adjacent asphalt parking lot. The site is currently being renovated for office reuse. Future use of the site is two-fold; a portion of the site is suitable for restricted residential reuse and the former facility area is suitable for commercial reuse. From 1889 to about 1899, the site was developed with numerous former residential and commercial buildings in addition to railroad tracks along the eastern portion of the site. Commercial operations include storefronts and taverns. From about 1899 to the 1980s, the site use remained consistent with historic uses adding a malting operation with storage areas, malting floors, a kiln, coal areas, engine rooms, offices, a transformer room, cleaning areas, and grain elevators/silos. Throughout the 1980s, surrounding residential and commercial buildings were demolished leaving only the malting facility which from the 1980s has been vacant. The Buffalo River is approximately 0.6 miles south of the site.
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Spaulding Composites (Site Numbers 915050 and E915050) - The Spaulding Composites site in Tonawanda has been cleaned up through the Environmental Restoration and the SSF. Spaulding began operations as a manufacturer of vulcanized fiber, an early "plastic" made by treating paper with a zinc chloride solution. The paper used to produce vulcanized fiber was also manufactured at the site. During the late 1940s to early 1950s, the plant began production of composite laminates. The resins used to make these laminates were also produced at the facility. In the fall of 1992, Spaulding ceased manufacturing operations at the site and began decommissioning the plant. Decommissioning activities were completed in 1995.
Spaulding Composites site- March 2011 Fact Sheet, Operable Units 1, 3 and 4 (5 page PDF)
- December 2010 Final Engineering Report, Operable Units 1, 3 and 4 (96 page PDF)
- March 2009 Explanation of Significant Differences, Operable Units 1, 3 and 4 (16 page PDF)
- March 2003 Record of Decision, Operable Units 1, 3 and 4 (51 page PDF)
- Location Map at Spaulding Site, Operable Units 1, 3 and 4 (1 page PDF)
- October 2013 Fact Sheet, Operable Units 5, 6, and 7 (5 page PDF)
- February 2011 Proposed Remedial Action Plan, Operable Units 5, 6, and 7 (35 page PDF)
- June 2009 IRM Work Plan, OU6 (78 page PDF)
- May 2009 IRM Work Plan, OU5 (45 page PDF)
- March 2009 Record of Decision, Operable Units 5, 6, and 7 (23 page PDF)
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Tecumseh Business Park (Site Numbers C915197, C915218, C915198, C915199, C915199G, C915199H, and C915205) - Tecumseh, Inc. is the owner of a large, approximately 1,100-acre property located south of Buffalo, New York, west of Route 5, in the City of Lackawanna and the Town of Hamburg. The property once was home to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation (BSC), Lackawanna Works, and was formerly used for the production of steel, coke and related products. Steel production on the property was discontinued in 1983 and the coke ovens ceased activity in 2000. Portions of the property were impacted by contaminants associated with steel and coke production. Tecumseh signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Erie County and the City of Lackawanna to promote and implement redevelopment of the former BSC property following cleanup. A portion of the Redevelopment Master Plan incorporates a Business Park area along NYS Route 5. The property is divided into multiple sites to facilitate remediation and redevelopment.
Aerial view of Tecumseh site- October 2018 Fact Sheet (3 page PDF)
- January 2018 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF)
- November 2017 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- November 2017 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- Phase III - October 2016 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF)
- Phase III - November 2015 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF)
- Phase III - October 2015 Fact Sheet #2 (5 page PDF)
- Phase III - Remedial Investigation/Alternatives Analysis Report (RI/AAR) (125 page PDF)
- Phase III - October 2015 Fact Sheet #1 (4 page PDF)
- Phase III - April 2015 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF)
- Phase III - March 2015 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF)
- Phase III - February 2015 Fact Sheet (10 page PDF)
- Phase III - August 2014 Fact Sheet (10 page PDF)
- Phase III - January 2014 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- Phase III - November 2013 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- Phase III - March 2013 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF)
- Phase III - July 2012 Fact Sheet (3 page PDF)
- Phase II - April 2010 Fact Sheet (2 page PDF)
- Phase II - July 2009 Remedial Investigation/Alternatives Analysis Work Plan (46 page PDF, 6.27 MB)
- Phase II - June 2009 Fact Sheet (2 page PDF)
- Phase II - March 2008 Health and Safety Plan (64 page PDF, 6.32 MB)
- Phase II - March 2008 Emergency Response Plan (15 page PDF)
- Phase IA - April 2010 Fact Sheet (2 page PDF)
- Phase IA - April 2010 Remedial Investigation/Alternatives Analysis Work Plan (48 page PDF)
- Phase I - December 2011 Fact Sheet (page PDF)
- Phase I - December 2011 Decision Document (12 page PDF)
- Phase I - February 2009 Fact Sheet (2 page PDF)
- Phase I - October 2008 Fact Sheet (2 page PDF)
- Railroad Realignment - December 2010 Fact Sheet (PDF)
- Railroad Realignment - October 2010 IRM Work Plan (37 page PDF)
- Tonawanda Coke (Site Number 915055) - The Tonawanda Coke site is a 160 acre property located in an industrial area at 3875 River Road in the Town of Tonawanda. A portion of the site sits along the eastern bank of the Niagara River. Several coke oven batteries bake coal at extremely high temperatures to produce coke, used as a fuel and in steelmaking. Wastes associated with coke production were disposed on site. From 1981 through 1997, several investigations revealed widespread contamination impacting soil, sediment and groundwater. In 2005, an additional environmental investigation revealed the presence of volatile organic compounds, semi-volatile organic compounds, and metals.
- Former Trico Plant (Site Number C915281) - This site is located in the City of Buffalo. The site is currently developed with a complex of five connected industrial buildings totaling 617,627 square feet. The oldest of the five buildings was constructed circa 1890 as a portion of the Christian Weyand Brewery which operated at the site until the enactment of prohibition. The building was purchased in 1920 by Trico Products Corporation for the manufacture of windshield wipers for the automotive industry. The remaining buildings were constructed from 1920 to 1954. The Trico Products Corporation operated at the site until circa 1990. Operations included electroplating, smelting, die-casting, rubber extrusion and metal fabrication. The property has been idle since at least 2000.
- Trinidad Park Site (Site Number B00083) - Environmental cleanup activities are taking place under the SSF at the City of Buffalo's Trinidad Park, located at 237 Kensington Avenue and Trinidad Place. In the summer of 2010, tar was observed seeping from cracks in the surface of one of the park's two basketball courts. Until the late 1960s, the park was the location of an asphalt plant. Abandoned and leaking underground storage tanks of diesel fuel were removed from the park by DEC in the mid 1990s. Between 2001 and 2002, an environmental investigation of the park by the City of Buffalo and DEC discovered another buried tank, containing asphalt tar, which was also removed.
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Union Ship Canal (Site Number B00164) - The Union Ship Canal site is also referred to as Parcel 3 of the Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park. It is a 200 foot-wide strip of land surrounding the Union Ship Canal east of Route 5, covering approximately 22 acres. Parcel 3 and the commerce park were once the site of Hanna Furnace, an iron smelting facility. Prior to industrialization, the area was predominantly marsh land. The historical disposal of fill materials (e.g., slag, cinders, demolition debris, and dredged sediments) and the subsequent operations of the iron smelting facility contaminated site soil and groundwater with hazardous substances, including heavy metals and SVOCs.
Union Ship Canal site - Vibratech Inc (Site Number 915165) - The Vibratech site is located in a mixed industrial/commercial/residential area in the City of Buffalo. Two and three story brick buildings cover more than half of this 10.3 acre site. The site was utilized for the manufacture of vibration dampeners and rotary shock absorbers for the truck and railroad industry. Specific operations at the plant included chip turning, assembly of components, heat treating and plating. The plant operated from 1927 through the mid-1990's.
- Western New York Workforce Training Center (Site Number C915310) - This is an 8.524-acre site located in an urban area of the City of Buffalo at 683 Northland Avenue. The site is bounded to the north by Northland Avenue, a railroad spur to the south, and commercial/industrial properties to the east and west. The site is mostly flat and includes an approximately 235,000 square foot building complex which consists of a four-story office area along Northland Avenue, a series of connecting manufacturing spaces, and a detached one story shed. The site is currently inactive, and is zoned for industrial use. The Western New York Workforce Training Center site was developed as a machine and tool works facility beginning in approximately 1911. The facility used hydraulic equipment, electrical equipment, and other industrial equipment (i.e., cranes, foundry, etc.) that led to the present site contamination. The site has seen several building additions and upgrades since its initial construction. The property was most recently used for storage until it was purchased by the current owner in 2015.
- Westwood Country Club (Site Number C915291) - The site is located at 772 North Forest Road, 385 Maple Road and 391 Maple Road in the south-central portion of the Town of Amherst, Erie County. The site is approximately 170 acres in size. There are six main buildings, several sheds, a swimming pool and tennis courts on the site. The site's current use is commercial and recreational. The site was formally a private golf course. The site was first developed as a golf course in 1921 and has remained in use since that time.
Niagara
- 211 Main Street (Site Number C932171) - The site is located in the City of North Tonawanda on Main Street, just south of the intersection of Main Street and Thompson Street. The Little River, Tonawanda Island, and the Niagara River are all located to the west. The Erie Canal is located to the south. The site has a one to two-story former industrial building and surrounding asphalt. The site is currently vacant. Surrounding parcels are a mix of industrial, commercial, and residential land uses. The site was first developed as a lumber mill in the 1880s. Historical operations at the property included lumber planing, pallet production, industrial cutting, machinery sales, and automobile repair, storage and painting. The building was deemed unfit for occupancy in 2015. Contamination at the proposed BCP site appears to be from past historical uses at the property which would have included the use of hazardous materials and petroleum products.
- 402 and 430 Buffalo Avenue Site (Site Number C932164) - This BCP site is located at 401, 402 and 430 Buffalo Avenue, in Niagara Falls. The 401 Buffalo Avenue parcel is the location of a former hotel and conference center, parking areas and vegetated/landscaped areas. A portion of the former hotel has been demolished and work is underway on the construction of a new structure. The 402 and 430 Buffalo Avenue parcels are currently vacant and were part of a former manufacturing facility. The site is currently vacant located in a highly developed mixed use commercial and residential area. The site is zoned commercial and redevelopment at the site has begun. Use of the three properties dates back to 1901 when a biscuit plant occupied the 402 and 430 parcels. This facility was named the Shredded Wheat Company and was eventually sold to Nabisco and renamed "National Biscuit Shredded Wheat" (1933) and finally, "Nabisco Shredded Wheat" (1941). Operations included underground storage tanks noted as fuel oil. Baking ovens, likely utilizing the noted fuel oil, were located across the manufacturing facility for drying raw materials, heating the various buildings and operations, and baking final products. Additional operations included paper box manufacturing and printing, material handling and shipping equipment, maintenance of manufacturing equipment and vehicles, likely application of pesticides and herbicides related to raw food material and finished goods storage, and use of storage of paint, solvents, thinners, grease and lubricants common along former manufacturing operations. In 1956, the administration building closed and was leased to Union Carbide as a research facility. In 1963, that building became the first home of Niagara County Community College. That same year, the old factory building was demolished. Records indicate that the 401 parcel was used as a park area along the Niagara River as part of the greater manufacturing plant property. This site was later redeveloped into the former hotel facility in the early 1980's.
- January 2016 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- Final Engineering Report (Document 1 of 4) (52 page PDF)
- Final Engineering Report (Document 2 of 4) (6 page PDF)
- Final Engineering Report (Document 3 of 4) (13 page PDF)
- Final Engineering Report (Document 4 of 4) (120 page PDF)
- November 2015 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- October 2015 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- Remedial Investigation/Interim Remedial Measures/Alternatives Analysis Report (RI/AAR) (173 page PDF)
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600 River Road Apartments (Site Number C932161) - The site is located in an urban area at 600 River Road in the city of North Tonawanda. The Niagara River runs along the western edge of the site and River Road along the eastern side. The main feature of the site is a 2,940 square foot metal warehouse building. The property is generally flat with several grass-covered piles of apparent soil/fill present on the eastern portion of the site. Miscellaneous piles of debris are located throughout the property. The site was a portion of a greater parcel utilized by Niagara Iron Works/Tonawanda Iron Works from at least 1886 through at least 1972. Historic usage included several railroad tracks throughout the property and a pig-iron casting operation. The site was then vacant until 1988 when AJ Marine Construction, a commercial retailer, began operations and continued until 2008. Since 2008 the metal building on the site has been used as a warehouse.
Aerial view of 600 River Road Apartments site - 815 River Road (Site Number B00178) - The 815 River Road site is a 1 acre parcel located in a commercial/industrial area of North Tonawanda in Niagara County. It is located on the east side of River Road, directly across the road from the City's waste water treatment plant. The site was used for several decades for automotive repairs, most recently by a company which leased and maintained school buses. The presence of USTs were documented on the site as far back as 1961. It is believed that several of these tanks leaked petroleum products into site soils. The City of North Tonawanda and the DEC cleaned up the site between 2003 and 2007. The cleanup actions, called interim remedial measures, were selected as the final remedy for the site since they successfully addressed contamination.
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1501 College Avenue (Former Union Carbide) (Site Number C932134) - The site was used for heavy industrial manufacturing from at least 1910 to the mid-1980s, and at one time was part of a larger Union Carbide Company manufacturing complex encompassing the Site and the eastern and western adjoining parcels. Previous investigations of the site and the adjoining eastern site (former Hazorb Site) have identified elevated SVOCs, metals and PCBs as contaminants of concern. Areas of concern include former ASTs and USTs areas, former transformer areas, soil/fill/debris piles, areas of drum storage and floor drains, sumps and vaults, areas of visibly-stained soil, former illegal scrapping areas and numerous areas of general dumping.
1501 College Avenue site - 6200-6390 Niagara Falls Boulevard (Site Number C932170) - The site includes two adjoining parcels and is located in a highly developed industrial and commercial area of the City of Niagara Falls. The site is bordered by commercial properties and an active solid waste landfill and closed hazardous waste landfill to the north; Niagara Falls Boulevard to the south with commercial properties, including retail and hotel facilities; Connecting Boulevard to the east; and commercial properties to the west. Both parcels are currently vacant. 6200 Niagara Falls Boulevard was historically a portion of a greater graphite/carbon product manufacturing operation including a disposal area for graphite/carbon material. 6390 Niagara Falls Boulevard was formerly used as a gasoline service station. The proposed BCP site is currently improved with a vacant automotive repair building for the historic gasoline service station and vacant industrial buildings historically used as research laboratories and offices. Multiple NYSDEC Spill incidents have been reported for the sites, including multiple underground storage tanks (USTs) and former fuel dispensers.
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Covanta (Site Number C932160) - The proposed Covanta Niagara Rail-to-Truck Intermodal Facility is located at 137 47th Street, Niagara Falls. The project site encompasses approximately 15 acres along the railroad tracks on the eastern edge of a larger, former industrial complex. The project site is occupied by one approximately 13,700 sq ft building formerly utilized for the maintenance and repair of locomotives; an inactive rail yard; and concrete floor slabs representing remnants of the former industrial complex. The on-site structure is not currently utilized and is in a deteriorated state. The remaining portions of the project site generally consist of aged asphalt, concrete and gravel surfaces with some successional vegetation occurring along the eastern site boundary. The project site was owned and operated by the Union Carbide Corporation Metals Division, which first developed the complex in the early 1900's. The plant produced special alloys, tungsten, ferroalloys, calcium carbide and ferrovanadium ferrotungsten. Union Carbide's Linde Division also operated a welding flux manufacturing facility on the plant property.
Aerial view of Covanta site- January 2016 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- Final Engineering Report (77 page PDF)
- December 2015 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- May 2013 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- January 2013 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- Decision Document (22 page PDF)
- Remedial Alternatives Analysis Report & Remedial Action Work Plan - Text (Document 1 of 2) (41 page PDF)
- Remedial Alternatives Analysis Report & Remedial Action Work Plan - Figures (Document 2 of 2) (3 page PDF)
- Remedial Investigation (RI) Report - Text and Appendices (Document 1 of 2) (63 page PDF)
- Remedial Investigation (RI) Report - Text and Appendices (Document 2 of 2) (106 page PDF)
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Durez North Tonawanda Facility (Site Number 932018) - A drainage improvement and wildlife revitalization project is planned for the former Durez Plastics site located at 700 Walck Road in the City of North Tonawanda in Niagara County. The site is currently operated by Glenn Springs Holdings, Inc. This work is being performed as part of the site's Operation, Maintenance and Monitoring (OM&M) requirements and will improve area surface drainage, reduce/eliminate potential surface runoff from the site to off site locations, remove trees and vegetation that could impact the perimeter interceptor trench, which provides groundwater containment for the site, and provide a response to neighborhood concerns regarding surface runoff from the site.
Aerial view of Durez site - Durez Corporation - Niagara Falls (EPA ID No: NYD002103216) - Durez submitted an application to renew its 6 NYCRR Part 373 Hazardous Waste Management Permit at its facility in Niagara Falls.
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Eighteenmile Creek Sites (Site Numbers 932121 and 932156) - Eighteenmile Creek consists of two sites, Eighteenmile Creek Corridor Site (between Clinton and Harwood Streets in the City of Lockport, site number 932121) and Eighteenmile Creek Sediments Site (from Harwood Street in the City of Lockport to Lake Ontario, approximately 15 miles, site number 932156). The sites include the creek itself and the millrace at the Flintkote property, the Flintkote plant, the Former United Paperboard property, Upson Park, the White Transportation property, and Water Street residential properties. The Flintkote plant is suspected to be the major source of mainly PCB and lead contamination at the site. Flintkote began operations as a manufacturer of felt and felt products in 1928. Manufacturing continued at Flintkote until December of 1971.
Eighteenmile Creek site- October 2012 Public Notice (2 page PDF)
- March 2010 Record of Decision (79 page PDF)
- January 2010 Proposed Remedial Action Plan (65 page PDF)
- July 2009 Supplemental Remedial Investigation Report (111 page PDF)
- September 2006 Eighteenmile Creek Corridor Remedial Investigation Report (67 page PDF)
- March 2006 Record of Decision for Flintkote Plant (53 page PDF)
- March 2003 Water Street Sampling Report (54 page PDF)
- June 2002 Flintkote Sampling Report (30 page PDF)
- Ekonol (Site Number V00653) - The Ekonol Polyester Resins facility is an active manufacturing facility located in the Town of Wheatfield. An underground concrete tank was used at the Ekonol facility from the 1970s through 1999 for collection of waste waters from the building floor drain system. During a tank removal conducted in 1999, TCE and Phenols were detected in site soils. Investigations indicate VOCs (such as TCE and breakdown products) and SVOCs (such as Phenol) at high concentrations in soil, overburden and bedrock groundwater. BP America, Inc. is addressing contamination at the site through the Voluntary Cleanup Program.
- FMC Corporation (Site Number 932014) - The FMC site comprises 102.85 acres located in the southwest corner of the Village of Middleport. FMC Corporation's Middleport Facility is a pesticide formulation and packaging plant that formerly manufactured arsenic-based and other pesticide products. As a result of past manufacturing operations and waste disposal practices beginning in the 1920s at this facility, chemical releases have occurred at the site that have affected sediment, surface water, soil, and groundwater at the facility's property and in adjacent off-site areas.
- September 2020 Fact Sheet - Proposed Remedy for OU3 (PDF)
- September 2020 Draft Statement of Basis - for OU3 (PDF)
- Spring 2020 Community Update (Operable Unit #4) (4 page PDF)
- Spring 2020 Community Update (4 page PDF)
- April 2019 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- November 2018 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- May 2018 Fact Sheet (6 page PDF)
- April 2018 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- March 2017 Fact Sheet - Phase 3 announcement (4 page PDF)
- March 2017 Fact Sheet - Residential cleanup (4 page PDF)
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Former Mill No. 2 (Site Number C932150) - The Former Mill No. 2, located in a highly industrialized urban area of Niagara Falls, historically housed paper manufacturing, finishing and packaging operations of finished goods. The facility consisted of several interconnected buildings which were constructed between 1923 and 1974. The former mill was taken out of service several years ago and has fallen into disrepair to the point where certain areas have collapsed and others exhibit evidence of structural distress. In addition, a portion of the site experienced a significant fire that also may have caused additional structural deficiencies and contributed to the overall building decay. Norampac, a participant in the BCP, will demolish the buildings so that it can safely proceed with an environmental investigation.
Former Mill No. 2 site- July 2012 Fact Sheet (1 page PDF)
- June 2012 Final Engineering Report (FER) (133 page PDF)
- June 2012 Fact Sheet (3 page PDF)
- June 2012 Site Management Plan (SMP) (48 page PDF)
- March 2012 Proposed Decision Document (27 page PDF)
- March 2012 IRM-AA Report (89 page PDF)
- March 2012 IRM-AA Appendices (419 page PDF)
- December 2011 Soil Excavation IRM Work Plan Addendum (100 page PDF)
- December 2011 RI Work Plan Addendum (34 page PDF)
- June 2011 Soil Excavation IRM Work Plan (297 page PDF)
- June 2011 IRM Work Plan for Demolition of Building No 10 (340 page PDF)
- June 2011 Northern Ext Remedial Investigation Work Plan (328 page PDF)
- April 2010 Remedial Investigation Work Plan (105 page PDF)
- March 2010 Interim Remedial Measure Work Plan (68 page PDF)
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Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls Expansion (Site Number C932162) - DEC is reviewing both the Remedial Investigation Report and the Interim Remedial Measures Work Plan for this site located at 1705 Factory Outlet Boulevard, Town of Niagara, Niagara County. This property was owned by the Union Carbide Corporation from 1949 until 1969. The exact use of this property by Union Carbide is unknown. Use of the property for a mobile home community began in 1972. During an expansion to the south in 1978, fill material with elevated levels of chlorinated solvents, mercury and heating oil was discovered. The site encompasses approximately 48.6-acres and includes the 34-acre former Sabre Park Mobile Home Community located at 1705 Factory Outlet Boulevard, an approximate 11.28-acre parcel located on the southern portion of the Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls property, and an approximate 3.45-acre parcel on the western side of the site located at 1755 Factory Outlet Boulevard.
Aerial map of Fashion Outlets site- November 2013 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF)
- Proposed Decision Document (11 page PDF)
- Alternative Analysis Report (70 page PDF)
- Interim Remedial Measures Work Plan (Document 1 of 5) (99 page PDF)
- Interim Remedial Measures Work Plan (Document 2 of 5) (47 page PDF)
- Interim Remedial Measures Work Plan (Document 3 of 5 (78 page PDF)
- Interim Remedial Measures Work Plan (Document 4 of 5) (75 page PDF)
- Interim Remedial Measures Work Plan (Document 5 of 5) (27 page PDF)
- September 2013 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF)
- Remedial Investigation Report (Document 1 of 7) (58 page PDF)
- Remedial Investigation Report (Document 2 of 7) 46 page PDF)
- Remedial Investigation Report (Document 3 of 7) (21 page PDF)
- Remedial Investigation Report (Document 4 of 7) (63 page PDF)
- Remedial Investigation Report (Document 5 of 7) (43 page PDF)
- Remedial Investigation Report (Document 6 of 7) (42 page PDF)
- Remedial Investigation Report (Document 7 of 7) (193 page PDF)
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Frontier Chemical-Royal Ave (Site Number 932110) - This site is located at 4626 Royal Avenue. The site industrial use dates back to 1906 when it was owned and operated by the International Minerals and Chemical Company as a caustic chlorine (mercury cell) production plant. Frontier Chemical Waste Process Corporation operated a waste treatment, storage and disposal facility at the site from 1974 until 1992. During site operations, several major spills were documented. During 1993 to 1994, over 4,000 drums of wastes were removed from the site as part of a cleanup effort. Between 1994 and 1995, wastes were removed from the 45 chemical storage tanks remaining on the property through a cleanup effort by the USEPA. Environmental investigations in 2002 found extensive soil and groundwater contamination resulted from past waste storage, handling and treatment activities at the site. Two RODs have been issued for the site to address soil and groundwater contamination.
Frontier Chemical site- Final Engineering Report (Document 1 of 8) (41 page PDF)
- Final Engineering Report (Document 2 of 8) (69 page PDF)
- Final Engineering Report (Document 3 of 8) (54 page PDF)
- Final Engineering Report (Document 4 of 8) (11 page PDF)
- Final Engineering Report (Document 5 of 8) (46 page PDF)
- Final Engineering Report (Document 6 of 8) (299 page PDF)
- Final Engineering Report (Document 7 of 8) (20 page PDF)
- Final Engineering Report (Document 8 of 8) (33 page PDF)
- Certificate of Completion (11 page PDF)
- April 2013 Fact Sheet (3 page PDF)
- March 2012 Final Record of Decision Amendment (33 page PDF)
- February 2012 Proposed Record of Decision Amendment (26 page PDF)
- March 2011 Record of Decision (31 page PDF)
- February 2011 Proposed Remedial Action Plan (27 page PDF)
- Globar (Former Carborundum, Site Number 932036) - The Globar site was previously owned by the Carborundum Company that manufactured heating elements used by the steel industry. The primary contaminant affecting the site is a volatile organic compound called TCE. This site is located at Hyde Park Boulevard and Rhode Island Avenue in the Town of Niagara.
- GM Components Holidngs, LLC (Site Numbers C932138, C932139 and C932140) - GMCH owns and operates a 342 acre automotive component manufacturing complex located at 200 Upper Mountain Road in both the City and Town of Lockport. Three buildings on the property have been entered into the BCP. Building 7 has been used for manufacturing since 1937. Previous investigations identified elevated levels of chlorinated solvents and semi-volatile organic compounds. Building 8 has been used for manufacturing since 1960. TCE and chlorinated solvents were detected in soil and groundwater samples. Building 10 was used for warehousing, and later, manufacturing. In 2009, soil vapor extraction and sub-slab depressurization systems were installed in part of the building to address chlorinated solvent contamination.
- July 2015 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF)
- March 2012 Fact Sheet (9 page PDF)
- March 2012 Remedial Investigation Report, Building 7 (76 page PDF)
- March 2012 Remedial Investigation Report, Building 8 (74 page PDF)
- March 2012 Remedial Investigation Report, Building 10 (72 page PDF)
- June 2010 Remedial Investigation Work Plan, Building 8 (20 page PDF)
- June 2010 Remedial Investigation Work Plan, Building 10 (23 page PDF)
- Love Canal (Site Number 932020) - The 80-acre Love Canal site is located in the LaSalle section of the City of Niagara Falls. Originally, the site was approximately 16 acres and was part of a power canal between the upper and lower sections of the Niagara River. From 1942 to 1953, Hooker Electrochemical Company disposed of industrial hazardous wastes and the City of Niagara Falls disposed of municipal wastes. For closure, Hooker installed a clay cap to grade. In 1953 the Canal site was sold to the Board of Education. This was soon followed by the construction of the 99th St. School in 1954 and residential dwellings bordering the site on 97th and 99th streets. In 1978, the Commissioner of the Department of Health declared the area a public threat to human health and orders restricted access along with a State of Emergency recommending the relocation of pregnant women and children under the age of two residing in homes adjacent to the canal. Under an Emergency Declaration in 1979, a permanent leachate collection system, clay cap to 22 acres and an activated carbon treatment plant was constructed. This was later expanded to cover over 40 acres. The site is currently being operated and monitored under an approved OM&M program and reports are submitted annually to DEC on site management activities along with certifications of the sites institutional and engineering control(s) status as to the effectiveness of the remediation.
- 2017 Periodic Review Report (194 page PDF)
- 2016 Periodic Review Report (177 page PDF)
- 2015 Periodic Review Report (Document 1 of 2) (60 page PDF)
- 2015 Periodic Review Report (Document 2 of 2) (454 page PDF)
- 2014 Periodic Review Report (Document 1 of 2) (513 page PDF)
- 2014 Periodic Review Report (Document 2 of 2) (98 page PDF)
- 2013 Periodic Review Report (Document 1 of 3) (90 page PDF)
- 2013 Periodic Review Report (Document 2 of 3) (494 page PDF)
- 2013 Periodic Review Report (Document 3 of 3) (111 page PDF)
- Love Canal - Decision On Habitability - September 1988 (44 page PDF)
- March 2011 Site Management Report (110 page PDF)
- October 2011 Sewer Investigation Report (97 page PDF)
- March 2011 Sanitary Sewer Investigation and Remediation Report (67 page PDF)
- Niacet (Site Number C932172) - The site is just over 19-acres and is located at 400 47th Street in Niagara Falls. The site was formerly in the VCP, site number V00373. Site remedial work was not completed prior to the termination of the VCP, and the site transitioned to the Brownfield Cleanup Program.
- Niagara Sanitation Company (Site Number (932054) - The Niagara Sanitation Company Site, also known as the Nash Road Landfill is an inactive landfill located directly north of City of North Tonawanda, adjacent to Nash Road, in the Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, New York. The site was a swampy area before landfill activities occurred. Since landfilling, portions of the property are covered with surface water at certain times of the year, particularly in the spring. The current owner of the site is the Town of Wheatfield. The Niagara Sanitation Company Site was operated as a landfill by Niagara Sanitation Company between 1964 and 1968. Both municipal and industrial solid wastes, including caustic materials and sludges, are disposed at the site. Records show that the site was used for disposal by the Niagara Falls Air Force Base, Bell Aerospace, Carborundum, Frontier Chemical, Graphite Specialties, Continental Can, and Grief Brothers.
- Community Update - Spring 2020 (PDF)
- Remedial Investigation Report - Winter 2019 (333 page PDF, 9.37 MB)
- Historic reports mentioned in the above RI Report
- Winter 2019 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- January 2018 News Release
- July 2017 News Release
- March 2017 Fact Sheet (6 page PDF)
- Preliminary Remedial Investigation Work Plan (26 page PDF)
- Site Characterization Report 2013 (32 page PDF)
- Site Characterization Report 2013 - Appendices (120 page PDF)
- Supplemental Site Characterization Report 2014 (71 page PDF)
- Updated Schedule, Transportation and Disposal Plan (5 page PDF)
- September 2014 Fact Sheet (8 page PDF)
- Niagara Sanitation Company IRM Work Plan (Document 1 of 4) (36 page PDF)
- Niagara Sanitation Company IRM Work Plan - Appendices (Document 2 of 4) (120 page PDF)
- Niagara Sanitation Company IRM Work Plan - Supplemental Site Characterization Plan 1 (Document 3 of 4) (32 page PDF)
- Niagara Sanitation Company IRM Work Plan - Supplemental Site Characterization Plan 2 (Document 4 of 4) (71 page PDF)
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Niagara Street Market (Site Number C932159) - The subject property is a combination of three adjacent parcels which together total approximately 0.3 acres. Located in the City of Niagara Falls on the northwest corner of 8th Street and Niagara Street, the property contains a one-story masonry building, which formerly functioned as a gasoline service station and vehicle repair facility.
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Old Upper Mountain Road (Site Number 932112) - This site, located on the outskirts of the City of Lockport had been used as a municipal waste dump during the 1920s through the 1950s. Waste disposal has contaminated the site with lead and other materials. In August 2008, based upon results from sampling, the Old Upper Mountain Road Site was listed as a Class 2 Site in the Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites in New York State.The Old Upper Mountain Road Site is approximately 7 acres in size. A narrow stream, Gulf Creek, emerges from a storm sewer culvert at the west side of the site and flows along the bottom of the ravine, eventually discharging into Eighteenmile Creek approximately one mile to the northeast.
Old Upper Mountain Road site- March 2013 Record of Decision (70 page PDF)
- February 2013 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF)
- Final Feasibility Study Report for Operable Units (OU) 1 and 2 - Document 1 of 2 (76 page PDF)
- Final Feasibility Study Report for OUs 1 and 2, Figures, Tables and Appendicies - Document 2 of 2 (43 page PDF)
- Proposed Remedial Action Plan (60 page PDF)
- March 2012 Record of Decision (45 page PDF)
- February 2012 Proposed Plan for OU 3 (35 page PDF)
- February 2012 Feasibility Study (72 page PDF)
- April 2011 Remedial Investigation Report (202 page PDF)
- February 2010 Fact Sheet (2 page PDF)
- June 2009 Scope of Work (39 page PDF)
- December 2007 Site Investigation Report (144 page PDF)
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Peters Dry Cleaning (Site Number 932128) - The site is listed as a Class "2" site in the State Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Sites (list of State Superfund sites). A Class 2 site represents a significant threat to public health or the environment; action is required. This site is located at 316 Willow Street in Lockport. It is located in a residential neighborhood of the City and near a City Park. Peters Dry Cleaning has been operated as a dry cleaning facility since the late 1930s/early 1940s. Prior to its use as a dry cleaner, the facility was used as a clothing tailor shop. The site is approximately 0.41 acres in size and is used for commercial purposes as a Dry Cleaning establishment. A two story brick structure occupies the majority of the property which houses the dry cleaning operation.
Peters Dry Cleaning site- Record of Decision (53 page PDF)
- February 2015 Fact Sheet (5 page PDF)
- Proposed Remedial Action Plan (43 page PDF)
- Interim Remedial Measure - Soil Removal Work Plan (42 page PDF)
- April 2014 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- "Contained-In" Determination Request Letter 1 (37 page PDF)
- "Contained-In" Determination Request Letter 2 (2 page PDF)
- Community Air Monitoring Plan - Interim Remedial Measure (11 page PDF)
- September 2013 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- Robert Moses Parkway - South Site (Site Number 932166) - This site is located at the southwest corner of the intersection of John Daly Blvd and Buffalo Ave in the city of Niagara Falls. The site is within a State Park that is operated by NYS Parks. The vacant site consists of approximately 2.0 acres. There are no buildings on the site. New York State has owned the property since the early 1960s when the area was used for the disposal of shot rock and other debris during the construction of the Robert Moses Power Project down river.
- April 2019 Fact Sheet (3 page PDF)
- Record of Decision - March 2019 (35 page PDF)
- February 2019 Fact Sheet (3 page PDF)
- Proposed Remedial Action Plan (27 page PDF)
- Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study Work Plan (107 page PDF)
- March 2016 Fact Sheet (4 page PDF)
- Interim Remedial Measures Work Plan (22 page PDF)
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Tract I (Site Number 932157) - The Tract I site in Niagara Falls was accepted into the BCP in March 2012. Located adjacent to the Tract II SSF site, there are environmental concerns at this site due to its former association with battery manufacturing processes. Cleanup is on-going. The Tract I site is located at 3123 Highland Ave in the City of Niagara Falls in Niagara County. It is approximately 5.90 acres and shares a border with the Tract II Highland Avenue State Superfund Site (Site Number 932136). The site was mostly covered by the former Power City Warehouse Building, a three-story masonry building, which was in various levels of disrepair (the building has been demolished). The site was formerly the location of a battery manufacturing facility in until the mid-1970s.
Aerial map of Tract I site -
Tract II (Site Number 932136) - The Tract II site in Niagara Falls once housed a business forms manufacturing operation as well as a former battery manufacturer. As a result the site is contaminated with high levels of lead on the eastern portion of the property. The original cleanup plan for the site was amended after site investigations discovered concentrations of lead in the eastern portion of the site that are considered hazardous. Tract II shares a border with the Tract I - Highland Ave Brownfield site (Site Number 932157).
Aerial map of Tract II site - Transit Street MGP (Site Number 932098) - The Transit Street MGP site, currently owned by New York Electric and Gas, was once the site of a MGP facility. Production of gas from coal and petroleum products impacted the soils and groundwater at the site and surrounding areas. Tar is present near the former MGP structures at the site. Tar has migrated downward into the underlying bedrock and has moved northwest, where it has been observed on the wall of a deep bedrock cut which contains the NYS Barge Canal. In 2008, the canal wall was cleaned, but visible coal tar returned within 30 days, indicating that the discharge is continuous, although at a low volume. Contamination also appears to have moved under the canal and extends a short distance past the canal in the bedrock. The remedy for the site includes excavation of contaminated soils and measures to collect tar and control migration. The remedy will also seal the nearby canal wall to stop tar from seeping into the canal and remove contaminated sediment after the seeps are eliminated.
- Vacant Office Space Site (Site Number C932165) - The site is located at 31 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, New York and is located in the downtown section of the city. The vacant office building is currently located on the Site. A Phase I ESA contained documentation suggesting that the Site was former used as a gasoline filling station. A Phase II study was performed in August 2013 which confirmed the presence of petroleum contamination on the site. As a result of previous investigations, the property was assigned Spill Number 1005734 due to the presence of petroleum contamination in the subsurface soil and fill.
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Vanadium Corporation of America (Site Number 932001) - Action has begun to address contamination at this site located at 4400 Lockport Road in the Town of Niagara under New York's SSF. This site is 88 acres. From 1920 to 1964, the site was owned by the Vanadium Corporation of America. During that time, portions of the site were used to dispose of an estimated 594,000 tons of wood, brick, ash, lime slag (calcium hydroxide), ferrochromium silicon slag, and ferrochromium silicon dust. New York Power Authority purchased the property from Vanadium in 1959 for construction of the Niagara Power Project. A portion of this property was subsequently sold to Niagara Mohawk (aka National Grid).
Aerial view of Vanadium site
Wyoming
- Wyoming County Fire Training Center (Site Number V00604) - The main site features include a Fire Training Facility building and a storm water retention pond. The site is currently used for fire training purposes, after construction of a new state of the art enclosed facility.