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Volume 130, Number 1 |
July 14, 2009 |
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Posted 09-12-2007 at 10:52PM
Troy cleans up
A total of around $2.5 million in state grants were announced last Friday in an attempt to clean about 27 acres in South Troy, including the former home of the Burden Iron Works, which dates back to the Civil War. Rensselaer County has received $2.2 million of that grant aimed to clean 21 acres of county-owned land in the South Troy Industrial Park. In addition, Mohawk and River streets, a six-acre city-owned piece of land, are earmarked in part for a new river research center run by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries.
Troy received a $225,000 grant to study pollution and cleanup plans for the land, which once housed the former Rensselaer Iron Works, where plates for the Union’s first ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, were made. It later housed the Ludlow Valve factory, which closed in the late 1960s. The Department of Environmental Conservation also announced a $211,500 grant to the town of Amsterdam to investigate pollution at an abandoned mill on the Chuctanunda Creek on Pioneer Street.
The grants cover 90 percent of cleanup costs, with the rest paid by the local government. Cleanup work on the Rensselaer County parcel is planned to begin this year under a contract with Latham-based C.T. Male Associates. | |
Posted 09-12-2007 at 10:52PM | |
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