New York Superfund (NPL) Sites
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Location: South Cairo, Greene County
Narrative: Facility that produced thermostats for small appliances. Waste organic solvents dumped on the parking lot and down drains attached to an abandoned septic system resulted in contaminated groundwater.
Contaminants: Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene
Applied Environmental Services
Location: Glenwood Landing, Nassau County
Narrative: Facility recovered fuels from hazardous wastes. Spills, leaks, and other activities resulted in soil and groundwater contamination.
Contaminants: Toluene · VOCs · Xylenes
Location: Kent, Putnam County
Narrative: Tailings from this mine have caused soil and groundwater contamination from arsenic.
Contaminants: Arsenic
Location: Champion, Jefferson County
Narrative: Sediments in a three-mile stretch of the Black River contain PCBs. Numerous industries operated along this stretch of the river.
Contaminants: Dioxins · PCBs
Location: Brewster, Putnam County
Narrative: Groundwater contamination traced to a nearby dry cleaner that disposed of chemicals in a dry well.
Contaminants: Tetrachloroethene · Vinyl Chloride
Location: Victory, Cayuga County
Narrative: Waste dumped here included wastewater treatment plant sludge, paint sludge, and chlorinated solvents. Groundwater and an adjacent wetland are contaminated.
Contaminants: Chromium · Copper · Lead · Mercury · Nickel · PAHs · PCBs · PFOA · PFOS · VOCs
Brookhaven National Laboratory (USDOE)
Location: Upton, Suffolk County
Narrative: Many accidental spills and historical chemical storage and disposal issues at this large facility have resulted in contamination of soil and groundwater at 32 different areas of concern.
Contaminants: Cesium-137 · 1,2-Dibromoethane · Heavy Metals · PAHs · Strontium-90 · Tritium · VOCs
Location: Byron Township, Genesee County
Narrative: A construction equipment salvage yard also used for hazardous waste disposal. Hundreds of chemical waste drums were abandoned or had their contents mixed with soil and covered over.
Contaminants: VOCs
Carroll And Dubies Sewage Disposal
Location: Port Jervis, Orange County
Narrative: Three acre property where wastes including septic tank wastes and waste from cosmetics manufacturing were dumped into seven unlined lagoons.
Contaminants: VOCs
Cayuga County Groundwater Contamination
Location: Union Springs, Cayuga County
Narrative: Large plume of chemicals in groundwater that originated at a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Auburn. The plume extends about seven miles to the Village of Union Springs.
Contaminants: cis-1,2-Dichloroethene · Trichloroethene · Vinyl Chloride
Location: Farmingdale, Suffolk County
Narrative: Electronic circuit board manufacture whose process wastes contaminated groundwater, soils, and sediment.
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · VOCs
Location: Old Bethpage, Nassau County
Narrative: Former manufacturer of pigments used in plastics and inks that disposed of wastes in three leaching basins and in drums and above ground storage tanks.
Contaminants: Acetone · Benzene · 1,1-Dichloroethane · trans-1,2-Dichloroethene · Ethylbenzene · Methylene Chloride · Tetrachloroethene · 1,1,1-Trichloroethane · Trichloroethene · Vinyl Chloride · Xylenes
Location: Colesville, Broome County
Narrative: 350-acre landfill that accepted solvents, dyes, metals, and municipal wastes. Groundwater is impacted.
Contaminants: VOCs
Location: Hauppauge, Suffolk County
Narrative: Printed circuit board manufacturer that discharged wastes into on-site cesspools, contaminating soil and groundwater.
Contaminants: Trichloroethene
Location: Tusten, Sullivan County
Narrative: Five acre facility that accepted solvents, paint sludges and thinners, waste oils, and municipal wastes. An estimated five to eight thousand drums were buried on the property.
Contaminants: Metals · VOCs
Crown Cleaners Of Watertown, Inc.
Location: Carthage, Jefferson County
Narrative: Dry cleaning facility that discharged wastewater into pits and deposited spent filters on the ground, which contaminated the soil and groundwater.
Contaminants: Tetrachloroethene
Location: Nassau, Rensselaer County
Narrative: Nineteen acre facility that accepted more than 46,000 tons of solvents, waste oil, PCBs, sludges, and other materials, resulting in soil, sediment, and groundwater contamination.
Contaminants: PCBs · VOCs
Location: Holley, Orleans County
Narrative: Manufacturer of various organic chemicals. A pressurized vessel ruptured in 2002, and released chemicals onto surrounding properties.
Contaminants: 1,2-Dibromoethane
Location: Lockport, Niagara County
Narrative: What EPA refers to as "legacy contamination" affects sediments along several thousand feet of this creek.
Contaminants: Benzo(a)pyrene · Copper · Dioxins · Furans · Lead · PCBs · Pesticides · Zinc
Location: Endicott, Broome County
Narrative: Chemicals leaching from the nearby Endicott Landfill made their way to the well field. Groundwater treatment and monitoring are ongoing.
Contaminants: Chloroethane · 1,2-Dichloroethene · Vinyl Chloride
Location: Elmira Heights, Chemung County
Narrative: Diversified manufacturer whose process wastes went into eight dump sites and two sludge disposal areas. Chemicals from these areas made their way into groundwater and then to a nearby public water supply.
Contaminants: Acetone · 1,2-Dichlorobenzene · 1,1-Dichloroethane · trans-1,2-Dichloroethene · Methylene Chloride · PAHs · PCBs · Tetrachloroethene · 1,1,1-Trichloroethane · Trichloroethene · Trichlorofluoromethane
Forest Glen Mobile Home Subdivision
Location: Niagara Falls, Niagara County
Narrative: Prior to development as a mobile home park, the property was used for disposal of various chemicals. Former residents have been relocated. Groundwater treatment continues.
Contaminants: PAHs · SVOCs
Location: Garden City Park, Suffolk County
Narrative: Groundwater contamination arising from past operations at a facility that housed many different businesses over the years, including a cutting mill and dry cleaning operations.
Contaminants: Tetrachloroethene
Location: Sidney, Delaware County
Contaminants: Anthracene · Benzo(a)anthracene · Benzo(a)pyrene · Chrysene · Creosote
Location: South Glens Falls, Saratoga County
Contaminants: PCBs · VOCs
General Motors (Central Foundry Division)
Location: Massena, St. Lawrence County
Contaminants: PCBs
Location: Franklin Square, Nassau County
Contaminants: Cadmium · Chromium · Nickel · VOCs
Location: Holbrook, Suffolk County
Contaminants: Nickel
Location: Brooklyn, Kings County
Contaminants: Metals · PAHs · PCBs · Pesticides · VOCs
Location: Rome, Oneida County
Contaminants: Barium · Chromium · Lead · PCBs · VOCs
Location: Plattekill, Ulster County
Contaminants: Manganese · SVOCs · VOCs
Location: Niagara Falls, Niagara County
Contaminants: Chlorinated benzenes
Location: Hicksville, Nassau County
Contaminants: Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene · Vinyl Chloride
Location: East Fishkill, Dutchess County
Contaminants: 1,1,1-Trichloroethane · Trichloroethene
Location: 200 miles of the Hudson River
Contaminants: PCBs
Islip Municipal Sanitary Landfill
Location: Islip, Suffolk County
Contaminants: VOCs
Location: Town of Johnstown, Fulton County
Contaminants: Chromium · Lead · SVOCs · VOCs · Zinc
Location: Caledonia, Livingston County
Contaminants: Chloroform · Methylene Chloride · Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene
Location: Horseheads, Chemung County
Contaminants: Benzene · Chloroform · Heavy Metals · PAHs · PCBs · Trichloroethene · VOCs
Location: Port Jefferson Station, Suffolk County
Contaminants: Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene
Lehigh Valley Railroad Derailment Site
Location: LeRoy, Genesee County
Contaminants: Trichloroethene
Location: Farmingdale, Nassau County
Contaminants: Cadmium · Chromium · Dichloroethenes · Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene
Location: Little Valley, Cattaraugus County
Contaminants: Trichloroethene
Location: Glen Cove, Nassau County
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · PCBs · Radionuclides
Location: Central Islip, Suffolk County
Contaminants: Metals · PAHs · SVOCs · Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene · 1,2,3-Trichloropropane
Location: Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County
Contaminants: Copper · Cyanide · Lead · Nickel · Zinc chlorides
Location: Malta and Stillwater, Saratoga County
Contaminants: Carbon Tetrachloride · Trichloroethene
Mattiace Petrochemical Company
Location: Glen Cove, Nassau County
Contaminants: VOCs
Location: Brooklyn, Kings County
Contaminants: 1,2-Dichloroethene · Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene · Vinyl Chloride
Location: Albany, Albany County
Contaminants: Mercury
Location: Marbletown, Ulster County
Contaminants: 1,1-Dichloroethane · 1,1-Dichlorethene · 1,1,1-Trichloroethane · Trichloroethene
Location: Maybrook, Orange County
Contaminants: PAHs · SVOCs · VOCs
Location: New Cassel and Hicksville, Nassau County
Contaminants: Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene
Location: Brooklyn and Queens Counties
Contaminants: Metals · PAHs · PCBs · SVOCs · VOCs
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. (Saratoga Springs Plant)
Location: Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County
Contaminants: PAHs · VOCs
Location: Oyster Bay, Nassau County
Contaminants: VOCs
Old Roosevelt Field Contaminated Ground Water Area
Location: Garden City, Nassau County
Contaminants: Carbon Tetrachloride · 1,1-Dichloroethene · Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene
Location: Olean, Cattaraugus County
Contaminants: Trichloroethene
Location: Syracuse, Onondaga County
Contaminants: Cobalt · Creosote · Heavy Metals · Lead · Mercury · PAHs · PCBs · Pesticides · VOCs
Peninsula Boulevard Groundwater Plume
Location: Hewlett, Nassau County
Contaminants: Tetrachloroethene
Location: Plattsburgh, Clinton County
Contaminants: JP-4 · Pesticides · VOCs
Location: Oswego, Oswego County
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · PCBs · VOCs
Location: North Hempstead, Nassau County
Contaminants: VOCs
Location: Babylon, Suffolk County
Contaminants: Cadmium · Heavy Metals
Location: Ramapo, Rockland County
Contaminants: Benzene · Cadmium · Chromium · Lead · Mercury · Phenols · SVOCs · Toluene · Xylenes
Richardson Hill Road Landfill Site
Location: Sidney Center, Delaware County
Contaminants: Dichloroethenes · PCBs · Trichloroethene
Robintech, Inc./National Pipe Company
Location: Vestal, Broome County
Contaminants: Lead · Toluene · 1,1,1-Trichloroethane · Trichloroethene
Location: Cortland, Cortland County
Contaminants: Metals · PCBs · SVOCs · VOCs
Rowe Industries Ground Water Contamination
Location: Noyack and Sag Harbor, Suffolk County
Contaminants: Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics
Location: Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer County
Contaminants: Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) · Trichloroethene
Location: Amenia, Dutchess County
Contaminants: Dichloroethanes · Toluene · Vinyl Chloride
Location: Lisbon, St. Lawrence County
Contaminants: Acetone · Benzene · Lead · Manganese · PCBs · Pesticides · Phenols · Toluene · 1,1,1-Trichloroethane · Trichloroethene · Zinc
Location: Romulus, Seneca County
Contaminants: 1,2-Dichloroethene · Heavy Metals · SVOCs · Trichloroethene · Vinyl Chloride
Shenandoah Road Groundwater Contamination
Location: East Fishkill, Dutchess County
Contaminants: Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene
Location: Sidney, Delaware County
Contaminants: PCBs · VOCs
Location: Wellsville, Allegany County
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · SVOCs · VOCs
Location: Lincklaen, Chenango County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Barium · Cadmium · Chromium · Lead · PCBs · Tetrachloroethene · 1,1,1-Trichloroethane · Trichloroethene
Stanton Cleaners Area Groundwater Contamination
Location: Great Neck, Nassau County
Contaminants: Tetrachloroethene
Location: Fenton, Broome County
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · SVOCs · VOCs
Location: Vestal, Broome County
Contaminants: 1,1,1-Trichloroethane · Trichloroethene
Location: Volney, Oswego County
Contaminants: Arsenic · Barium · Benzene · Cadmium · Chlorinated Hydrocarbons · Chromium · Mercury · Nickel · Toluene
Location: Towns of Wappinger and Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County
Contaminants: Chromium · Lead · Mercury · PAHs
Location: Ridgewood, Queens County
Narrative: Former facility used to extract rare earth elements from monazite sand. The site has elevated levels of radioactivity.
Contaminants: Radium · Thorium · Uranium
Location: Moira, Franklin County
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · PCBs · Phenols · VOCs
Action Anodizing, Plating, And Polishing Corp.
Location: Copiague, Suffolk County
Narrative: Facility that performed various operations including metal plating and anodizing, and formerly discharged certain wastes into dry wells. Groundwater sampling following removal of affected media showed that the groundwater met applicable standards.
Contaminants: Cadmium · Chromium · Zinc
Deleted: 1995
Location: Hicksville, Nassau County
Narrative: Chemical storage and waste disposal practices at this facility led to contamination of soil and groundwater.
Contaminants: Chromium · Lead · VOCs
Deleted: 1999
Location: Batavia, Genesee County
Narrative: Industrial wastes disposed of at this landfill led to contamination of soil, sediments, surface water, and groundwater.
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · Phenols · VOCs
Deleted: 2005
Location: Vestal, Broome County
Narrative: A facility that manufactured truck bodies, and in the process generated hazardous wastes stored and spilled on site. According to EPA, subsequent removal of drums and stained soil brought remaining chemical concentrations to within acceptable levels.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Benzene
Deleted: 1992
Bioclinical Laboratories, Inc.
Location: Bohemia, Suffolk County
Narrative: Facility that formulated and repackaged industrial chemicals. Wastes were disposed of via the septic system, storm drains, or by dumping on the ground, resulting in contamination of soil and groundwater.
Contaminants: 1,1-Dichloroethane · 1,1,1-Trichloroethane
Deleted: 1994
Location: Eaton, Madison County
Narrative: Disposal of wastes into a large open trench led to contamination of soil and sediments.
Contaminants: Lead · Phenols · Phthalates · VOCs
Deleted: 1994
Location: Granby, Oswego County
Narrative: A private property used for disposal of wastes, including approximately 2,200 drums of hazardous wastes.
Contaminants: Barium · Cadmium · Chromium · Manganese · SVOCs · VOCs
Deleted: 1996
Location: Conklin, Broome County
Narrative: Some industrial wastes were likely disposed of along with municipal solid wastes, resulting in groundwater contamination.
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · VOCs
Deleted: 1997
Location: Newburgh, Orange County
Narrative: Former car and scrap metal junk yard that also operated a smelter. Improper waste handling led to soil contamination.
Contaminants: Metals · PCBs · Pesticides · SVOCs · VOCs
Deleted: 2014
Ellenville Scrap Iron and Metal
Location: Ellenville, Ulster County
Narrative: Facility formerly used for a variety of purposes, including scrap metal recovery, battery reclamation, and waste storage.
Contaminants: Anthracene · Arsenic · Barium · Cadmium · Chromium · Fluoranthene · Lead · Nickel · Pyrene · Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene
Deleted: 2019
FMC Corp. (Dublin Road Landfill)
Location: Ridgeway and Shelby, Orleans County
Narrative: Property used to dispose of coal ash cinders, laboratory wastes, filter residues, building debris and pesticide production residues.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Lead · Mercury · Pesticides
Deleted: 2020
Location: Fulton, Oswego County
Narrative: Facility primarily used to manufacture roofing materials that stored millions of gallons of waste, oils, and sludge in tanks. Releases contaminated groundwater, soil, and sediments.
Contaminants: VOCs
Deleted: 2018
Location: Hyde Park, Dutchess County
Contaminants: VOCs
Deleted: 2023
Location: West Winfield, Herkimer County
Narrative: Approximately 180,000 gallons of chromium-containing wastewater was discharged from the tannery into three unlined lagoons and nearby wetlands, which drain into the Unadilla River. Settled solids in the lagoons were periodically excavated and deposited as bank material around the lagoons.
Contaminants: Chromium
Deleted: 2012
Location: Niagara Falls, Niagara County
Narrative: From 1943 until the early 1970s, materials disposed of at this facility included about 23,500 tons of organic solvents, organic and inorganic phosphates, and related chemicals, along with sludge, fly ash, electrical parts, 300 tons of hexachlorocyclohexane process cake, including lindane, 66,000 tons of mixed organic and inorganic chemicals, about 20,000 tons of mercury brine and brine sludge, and more than 1,300 tons of a hazardous chemical mixture.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Benzene · Cadmium · Chlorinated benzenes · Chlorophenols · Dioxins · Furans · Heavy Metals · Mercury · Pesticides · Phenols · SVOCs · Toluene
Deleted: 2004
Location: Niagara Falls, Niagara County
Narrative: A 15-acre area used for disposal of about 80,000 tons of waste, some of it hazardous material, resulting in sediment and groundwater contamination.
Contaminants: Dioxins · VOCs
Deleted: 2013
Location: Mineola and North Hempstead, Nassau County
Narrative: A metal shaping facility whose releases contaminated soil and groundwater.
Contaminants: 1,1-Dichloroethane · 1,2-Dichloroethene · Tetrachloroethene · 1,1,1-Trichloroethane · Trichloroethene
Deleted: 2016
Location: Hyde Park, Dutchess County
Narrative: An 57-acre industrial and septic waste disposal that accepted industrial liquid wastes and sludges, including oils and greases, acids, alkalis, solvents, metals from plating operations, pigments, phenols and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
Contaminants: Cadmium · Chloroform · Chromium · Copper · Lead · Mercury · Methylene Chloride · Trichloroethene · VOCs
Deleted: 2005
Chloroform
Location: Town of Bedford, Westchester County
Narrative: Chemicals impacting this municipal well may have come from four dry cleaners that discharged their process wastes into septic systems.
Contaminants: Tetrachloroethene
Deleted: 2000
Location: Farmingdale, Suffolk County
Narrative: Wastes from facility operations were discharged into sludge drying beds and a leach pit, resulting in groundwater contamination.
Contaminants: Chromium · Nickel · Zinc
Deleted: 1995
Location: Niagara Falls, Niagara County
Narrative: Between 1942 and 1953, when it ceased disposal operations, the Hooker Electrochemical Company (now Occidental Chemical Corporation, or OXY) disposed of over 21,000 tons of hazardous chemicals into the abandoned Love Canal, contaminating soil and groundwater.
Contaminants: Chlorobenzene · Dioxins · Pesticides · VOCs
Deleted: 2004
Location: Paris, Oneida County
Narrative: And 18-acre former gravel pit and landfill and gravel pit. Deposited materials included domestic wastes, septic tank effluent, dyes and waste oils, and animal parts from a meat processing plant.
Contaminants: Chromium · Heavy Metals · Nickel · PCBs · Phenols · VOCs
Deleted: 2013
Location: Cold Spring, Putnam County
Narrative: Former nickel-cadmium battery manufacturer whose operations contaminated soil on the plant property and adjacent properties, as well as sediments in a nearby cove, adjacent marshland, and the Hudson River.
Contaminants: Cadmium · Cobalt · Nickel · Trichloroethene · Zinc
Deleted: 1996
Location: Wheatfield, Niagara County
Narrative: 65-acre facility that accepted large amounts of municipal and industrial solid and chemical wastes.
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · Pesticides · SVOCs · VOCs
Deleted: 2004
Location: Southampton, Suffolk County
Narrative: 131-acre former municipal landfill that accepted a variety of wastes.
Contaminants: Ammonia · Manganese
Deleted: 2005
Pasley Solvents and Chemicals, Inc.
Location: Hempstead, Nassau County
Narrative: A former tank farm, about 75 feet by 275 feet, used to store oils, solvents and other chemicals. Poor waste handling and storage led to soil and groundwater contamination.
Contaminants: SVOCs · VOCs
Deleted: 2011
Peter Cooper Corporation (Markhams)
Location: Dayton, Cattaraugus County
Narrative: An animal glue and industrial adhesives factory. A total of about 40,000 cubic yards of waste and fill was consolidated and capped.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Chromium · Zinc
Deleted: 2010
Location: Gowanda, Cattaraugus County
Narrative: An animal glue and industrial adhesives factory that piled process sludges on the property.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Chromium · Zinc
Deleted: 2019
Location: Cheektowaga, Erie County
Narrative: 120-acre landfill where waste and drums were deposited into shallow 150-foot diameter pits and covered over with fly ash and fill material.
Contaminants: Benzene · Heavy Metals · Mercury · PCBs · Phenol
Deleted: 2008
Location: Woodside, Queens County
Narrative: Facility that abandoned a large quantity of radioactive material after shutting down. Radioactive materials and other hazardous substances were removed.
Contaminants: Radium
Deleted: 1995
Smithtown Groundwater Contamination
Location: Smithtown, Suffolk County
Contaminants: cis-1,2-Dichloroethene · Tetrachloroethene · Trichloroethene · Vinyl Chloride
Deleted: 2023
Location: Deer Park, Suffolk County
Narrative: Facility whose operations included the overhauling of military aircraft components. Operations contaminated groundwater and soil.
Contaminants: Chlorobenzene · Dichlorobenzenes · Trichloroethene · Xylenes
Deleted: 2010
Location: Suffern, Rockland County
Narrative: An oil burner reconditioning business discharged waste fluids into a pit, and chemicals in those fluids leached to groundwater and subsequently made their way to the well field.
Contaminants: Dichloroethane · Naphthalene · Trichloroethane
Deleted: 1993
Location: Oyster Bay, Nassau County
Narrative: A 38-acre landfill that operated from 1933 to 1975 and received a wide variety of wastes. It has been capped, and a system has been installed to prevent gases generated in the landfill from migrating.
Contaminants: Arsenic · Benzene · Cadmium · Chromium · Lead · Manganese · PCBs · Toluene · Vinyl Chloride · Xylenes
Deleted: 2005
Location: Farmingdale, Suffolk County
Narrative: Facility discharged millions of gallons of process liquids wastes into a sanitary pit and the four underground leaching pools.
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · VOCs
Deleted: 2001
Location: Vestal, Broome County
Narrative: Contaminated soils were in and around a leach pit at nearby Monarch Chemical Corporation. Some contaminated soils were removed and a system was installed to remove chemicals from the drinking water supply.
Contaminants: Tetrachloroethene · 1,1,1-Trichloroethane · Trichloroethene
Deleted: 1999
Location: Warwick, Orange County
Narrative: Former 19-acre unlined landfill that accepted wastes and sludges. EPA capped the landfill and installed filters on some drinking water wells.
Contaminants: Heavy Metals · Phenols · SVOCs · VOCs
Deleted: 2001
Location: Brant, Erie County
Narrative: A local homeowners' association applied waste oil containing PCBs to local roadways to control dust. Construction projects led to some of that soil being spread around the community. Subsequent sampling revealed PCBs in the air, road dust, soil, vacuum cleaner dust and water samples from private wells.
Contaminants: PCBs
Deleted: 1994
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