NY State to Complete Deerpark Hazardous Site Cleanup in Early 2025

New York state’s Department of Environmental Conservation is on track to finish the cleanup of a major inactive contaminated site along Route 209 in the town of Deerpark in early 2025, the agency’s spokesperson confirmed in an email to The Epoch Times. The scheduled completion aims to put an end to a decades-long saga of remedying a former manufacturing site that poses a significant threat to human health and the environment. Under two previous owners—a television tube manufacturer and then a lead battery maker—hazardous wastewater was dumped into an on-site lagoon for years, causing unsafe levels of fluoride in the groundwater and higher-than-standard amounts of chemicals and metals in ground soils and stream bottom, according to agency records....