Dark Matter

Video & Transcript: Ossining DPW Site Redevelopment ENGAGEMENT SERIES: Dark Matter

DEC Fact Sheet for AAR.PDF
Alternatives Analysis Report (Site 360172).pdf

The Village’s fourth chapter of the Ossining DPW Site Redevelopment ENGAGEMENT SERIES will begin with a discussion regarding what it means for the DPW site to be defined as a brownfield and how, through initializing construction for a residential development, it can be remediated as part of the DEC’s Brownfield Cleanup Program.

As defined by the EPA, brownfield site remediation is “the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of a piece of property that may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. Reinvesting in these properties facilitates job growth, utilizes existing infrastructure, takes development pressures off of undeveloped, open land, and improves and protects the environment.” Typically, remediation of a brownfield includes excavation of contaminants in the soil and subsurface, the installation of a barrier between the surface and the impurities, lead and asbestos abatement, and activation of the bioremediation process, which adds naturally-occurring microbes to the soil to consume organic pollutants.

The DPW Site is part of a consent agreement with Con Edison, under which they are obligated to perform some degree of site cleanup depending on the proposed property use. Participants will learn about the different degrees and types of remediation that are possible, which level of decontamination is likely with this project, and how removing contaminants sooner rather than later will make our waterfront safer, particularly as sea level rise becomes more dramatic.

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