October 27, 2008 - The state Department of Environmental Conservation is investigating a site on Payeville Road for century-old environmental contamination that spreads down Brandy Brook into Lake Flower, which is the village of Saranac Lake's emergency water source.
The one-acre Payeville Road site was once home to the Saranac Lake Gas Company and is one of hundreds of former manufactured gas plants across the state being investigated by the DEC for possible environmental contamination.
From the late 1800s to about the 1940s, the plant used coal to manufacture light gas for the village of Saranac Lake.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
Showing posts with label coal gasification. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Illinois residents form group to help fight for cleanup
January 27, 2008 - Like so many others in Champaign, M.D. Pelmore's basement sump pump goes into overdrive during the rainy season to keep groundwater at bay.
But every once in awhile there's something else: an unusual smell he can't quite place.
Pelmore lives steps away from the 3.5-acre site of a former coal gasification plant, now the focus of a cleanup effort by AmerenIP.
And that makes him nervous.
He built his basement over an old abandoned water well, and he's worried that contaminated groundwater or vapors might somehow find their way into his home.
He's also worried about what his children might have been exposed to years ago, when it was common for youngsters to play on the now fenced-off site.
Pelmore said he was unaware of the history of the former coal gasification site, which operated at least from 1887 until the early 1950s, until a citizens' group started publicizing the issue a couple of months ago.
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But every once in awhile there's something else: an unusual smell he can't quite place.
Pelmore lives steps away from the 3.5-acre site of a former coal gasification plant, now the focus of a cleanup effort by AmerenIP.
And that makes him nervous.
He built his basement over an old abandoned water well, and he's worried that contaminated groundwater or vapors might somehow find their way into his home.
He's also worried about what his children might have been exposed to years ago, when it was common for youngsters to play on the now fenced-off site.
Pelmore said he was unaware of the history of the former coal gasification site, which operated at least from 1887 until the early 1950s, until a citizens' group started publicizing the issue a couple of months ago.
More . . .
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