EDITORIAL: We need the EPA's help

Written by PARRY TEASDALE

Thursday, 06 March 2014 12:34

OUTSIDE YOU SEE A GREEN METAL building. The meadow next to it, covered in snow, is surrounded by a chain link fence. Below the dirt lane next to the fence, hidden by trees and gullies, is the Valatie Kill. Welcome to what was the Dewey Loeffel landfill, now part of the National Priorities List of the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. People are more likely to know the shorthand version: a Superfund toxic waste site.

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EPA TOXIN RELEASE "Q & A" OPEN HOUSE

Bring your Questions and Join Us  at the EPA's First Columbia County Community Q& A Session  Concerning the Dewey-Loeffel Treated Water and Leachate  currently being dumped into the Valatie Kill  

Announcement: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold two 'Q & A' open house Information Sessions on March 3 (Kinderhook) and March 4 (Nassau) to discuss the cleanup of the Dewey-Loeffel Landfill Superfund Site in the Rensselaer County town of Nassau, and why they have chosen to bring the contamination across county lines—to Columbia County—and dump into our Valatie Kill. 

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The Columbia Paper

EPA Superfund Dewey Loeffel Landfill

EPA hosted Public Informational Meeting in Nassau

Concerned citizens were on hand to listen to the EPA's presentation and ask questions about the process.

TAG funding allows qualified community groups to contract with independent technical advisers who can interpret and help the community understand technical information about their local Superfund site. 
More information about TAG’s is available at http://www.epa.gov/superfund/community/tag/.


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Press Release From the Rensselaer County Legislature

   

PRESS RELEASE                                                                                             Contact: Richard Crist

May 2, 2012                                                                                                    270-2880 (cell 928-1920)

Legislators Welcome Progress on Compensation for Nassau Toxic Waste Damage

Members of the Rensselaer County Legislature welcomed progress on providing compensation to towns for damage suffered from years of toxic contamination in the Town of Nassau.

Chairman of the Legislature Martin Reid and Legislators Alex Shannon and Judith Breselor have been supporters of the measure and also had been strong advocates for a comprehensive clean-up of the toxic contamination at the Loeffel site.