Dewey Loeffel Landfill is located in New York
Dewey Loeffel Landfill
Location of Dewey Loeffel Landfill in New York State

The Dewey Loeffel Landfill is an EPA superfund site located in Rensselaer County, New York. In the 1950s and 1960s, several companies including General Electric, Bendix Corporation and Schenectady Chemicals used the site as a disposal facility for more than 46,000 tons of industrial hazardous wastes, including solvents, waste oils, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), scrap materials, sludges and solids. [1] Some hazardous substances, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and PCBs, have migrated from the facility to underlying aquifers and downstream surface water bodies, resulting in contamination of groundwater, surface water, sediments and several species of fish. There is currently a ban on fish consumption in Nassau Lake and the impacted tributaries. Site investigations are underway to determine the nature and extent of the contamination and inform the development of permanent cleanup options for the site.

In 1986, Schenectady Chemicals agreed that it would pay $496,500 toward the cleanup effort.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "EPA Superfund Site Information". United States Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved 2016-12-17. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ↑ "Chemical Polluter Pays $496,500". The Buffalo News. 25 January 1986. p. 4. Retrieved 13 February 2023.

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