From LIQCity:Ahh yes – winter in LIC. Add ‘the sounds and smells of toxic cleanup’ to ‘chestnuts roasting on an open fire’ and you’ve got the picture, as two active remediation projects are going on in Queenswest along the LIC waterfront.
In this process, the identified toxic soil is dug up under the huge white tents that are now installed at Queenswest (meant to keep the debris/dust contained), loaded onto a truck, and transported out. This isn’t the first time toxic soil has been unearthed in LIC. Just last year there were many complaints of strange and foul smells and super-eerie dust clouds during the remediation. CB2 and Queens West Development Corp also openly asked residents to say something if they smell something, for their own health. That said, keep your nostrils open, LIC.
7 comments:
Yes it must be the smell of benzene, car paint buried, the stewed soup lurking just feet away in the East river leaking in the soil also (PCB's, sewage), and all the rest of Standard\Rockefellers oil refining waste.
Chevron did a fine job of wrecking large portions of the Ecuadorian rain forest and villages with their oil exploration.
You have to be nuts to live there. People are talking about moving Queens Bridge here so that Suna can take that over.
Brownfields for brown skins.
Why is this news when the entire area was used for heavy industry for generations. Perhaps the "remediation" will make things worse by stirring up volatile compounds and releasing them into the air near the clean-up site and along the paths taken by the dump trucks full of contaminants.
And oh, by the way, the contaminants are just moving to another neighborhood to give others cancer, aren't they?
I cannot believe in the heart of NY they are talking about moving 1000s of people above a Love Canal and no one is rasing a cry of outrage.
That's not all that stinks here.
Crooked pols and corrupt community boards create a stench that reaches all the way up to high heaven!
I cannot believe in the heart of NY they are talking about moving 1000s of people above a Love Canal and no one is rasing a cry of outrage.
----
That is because, dear boy, the people have no opinion. You ask them their opinion on something, and the first thing out of their months is "what did Kathy Nolan say?"
The Borden Avenue Bridge will remain closed (due to re-open June '09) due to soil remediation. I believe it was about done and they unearthed some unsavory remains of the industrial revolution.
As for the 96 buildings (3,000+ apts) of the queensbridge projects moving into this "up and coming" neighborhood, I highly doubt it. We can get nuked and QB will still be there.
5th St and 46th Road is still slated for College Dorms close to the 7 Train, they keep the $ away from the projects.
Post a Comment