WWW.QNS.COM RIDGEWOOD TIMES MARCH 7, 2019
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State plan to clean up Glendale superfund site
Toxic chemicals possibly left over from a knitting mill at a site now occupied
by Home Depot on Woodhaven Boulevard in Glendale will soon be removed
from nearby sites. Photo via Google Maps
was built, a volunteer group conducted
an excavation to remove
some of the soil and air sparging,
a method of digging wells into the
ground to air out contamination,
was performed in the 4,000-squarefoot
area. Ground water, however,
may still be contaminated and a
plume of PCE may still be effecting
the public to the north of the site as
it extends over homes, businesses
and Forest Park.
Air sparging measures have been
expanded at least twice throughout
the early 2000s to address ground
water contamination 30 feet below
the water table, but this has been
shown to be insufficient, DEC documents
show.
DEC says the contaminated
ground water should not be an issue
for residents since drinking
water supplies are piped in from
elsewhere, but ground vapors rising
may effect air quality.
The agency’s goal is to return
the site to its pre-contaminated
condition if feasible but at the
very least minimize any risk
to the public.
The DEC plans to implement insitu
chemical oxidation (ISCO) which
is a method of pumping chemical
oxidizers into the ground to expel
PCE and other toxic substances
from the soil and will impact the
contaminant’s chemical structure
across a 14,400-square-foot area
south of Seither Stadium, where
the Ridgewood Glendale Middle
Village Maspeth Little League
(RGMVM) plays.
Queens Library at North Forest
Park is located at 98-27 Metropolitan
Ave. and the DEC says a 30-day
online public comment period will
take into the concerns or suggestions
of residents in the area.
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BY MARK HALLUM
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A remedial action plan is in the
works for a state Superfund
site in Glendale on the border
of Forest Hills which has been known
to send a plume of toxic tetrachloroethylene,
or PCE, a chemical used in dry
cleaning products.
The site at 75-09 Woodhaven Blvd.
may have come under contamination
in 1967 when the property,
was used as a knitting mill. The
state Department of Environmental
Conservation believes may be the
blame for the PCE contamination,
and since late 1990s a Home Depot
has sat at the location.
After more than 20 years of
unsuccessful remediations at and
around the site, however, the DEC
is turning to more aggressive
methods to reduce the toxic threat
and will be opening up a public
comment period both online and
through a meeting on March 11 at
6 p.m., located at Queens Library’s
North Forest Park branch.
But this is not the only remediation
attempt the DEC has made
at the site.
In 1997, before the Home Depot
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