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Are you in need of a Toxic Tort Attorney in The Excelsior State? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designated Sidney Landfill in New York as a Superfund site due to its levels of enviromental contamination and harm to the natural world. You can read the report for the site below.
Some Superfund sites are on the National Priority Site Lists. The National Priorities List ("NPL") is the list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial action financed under the federal Superfund program. Environmental Protection Agency regulations outline a formal process for assessing hazardous waste sites and placing them on the NPL. The NPL is intended primarily to guide the EPA in determining which sites warrant further investigation.
Sites are listed on the NPL upon completion of Hazard Ranking System (HRS) screening, public solicitation of comments about the proposed site, and after all comments have been addressed. EPA may delete a final NPL site if it determines that no further response is required to protect human health or the environment. Sites where a remediation was completed through the Superfund program are typically deleted from the NPL.
Living near Superfund Sites in New York may place you and your family more vulnerable to developing a disease from exposure to the site and experiencing a loss of value for your property, but there are steps you can take to fight back: The EPA says,
[We have] set up a "Post Construction Completion" (or PCC) strategy to ensure that Superfund response actions provide for the long-term protection of human health and the environment. EPA's Post Construction Completion activities also involve optimizing remedies to increase effectiveness and/or reduce cost without sacrificing long-term protection of human health and the environment.Regardless, most of the Superfund sites continue to pose a threat the well-being of those who live close to a Superfund site.
When you rely on Weitz & Luxenberg, you benefit from the legal experience of accomplished Toxic Tort attorneys who will help fight back against polluters and win you and your family the financial compensation and remediation to which you are entitled.
Below you can read the EPA report for the Sidney Landfill Superfund site. If you, a loved one, or someone in your community has suffered due to toxic pollution in Sidney Landfill, or if your property has lost value because of contamination, you will need a toxic tort attorney who knows the people of the State of New York . Take your first step filling out this simple form. There is no obligation, and your case will be evaluated within 24 hours. To refer a friend, neighbor, or loved one, follow this link to let them know about the environmental toxic tort attorneys at Weitz & Luxenberg.
Sidney Landfill
This site is not a Federal Facility.
Sidney Landfill Site
New York
Epa Region 2
Site Description
e, situated in hilly terrain on the eastern side of Richardson Hill
Road, is located approximately 2.5 miles southeast of Sidney Center and 3.5 miles northeast
of Trout Creek. The site is situated on a drainage divide, located in a sparsely populated area
municipal and commercial waste including waste oils from 1964 until 1972.
named the Richardson Hill Road Landfill site. Approximately 50 property owners reside within
water from private wells or springs.
Site Responsibility:
Threats and Contaminants
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The leachate, sediments, and surface water on
VOCs. Solvents and PCBs are present in on
and with contaminated ground water may pose a threat. Human exposures and contaminated
groundwater releases are under control.
Cleanup Approach
The site is being addressed in two stages: immediate actions and a longterm remed
focusing on the cleanup of the entire site.
Response Action Status
Approximately eighty warning signs were posted along the perimeter of
the landfill and the site was fenced
remedial alternatives. Following the completion of the RI/FS, a Record
on September 28, 1995, selecting a final remedy for the site. The selected remedy calls for
the construction of four independent closure caps over several disposal areas and extracting
and treating contaminated ground water located in a ground water hot spot. The design of the
Landfill Superfund site was capturing contaminated ground water from the Sidney Landfill site,
ed in a September 2004 Explanation of Significant Differences.
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, Section 121(c), EPA must conduct
year review was completed in June 2004. The next fiveyear
review will be performed before June 2009.
EPA sent 53 information request letters and followed up with 15 letters notifying
potentially responsible parties (PRPs) of their liability and requesting them to initiate an RI/FS.
truct the remedy selected by EPA pursuant to a Unilateral Administrative Order issued by
Epa.
enforcement costs.
directly across the street from the Sidney Landfill site.
Cleanup Progress
truction Completed; Ground Water Extraction and
Treatment Underway)
After listing the site on the NPL, EPA conducted a preliminary evaluation of the conditions at
the site and determined that no immediate actions were required to make the site safer while
investigations leading to the implementation of a remedy were taking place.
Site Repositories
Sidney Memorial Public Library, Main Street, Sidney, New York 13838
EPA Region II Superfund Records Center, 290 Broadway, 18th
source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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