HUGUENOT – Clean up is about to begin to address contaminated soils related to former operations at the former C&D Power Systems property between Roue 209 and a tributary of the Neversink River in the hamlet of Huguenot in the Town of Deerpark, the State Department of Environmental Conservation announced.
The estimated cost to remediate the property is $9.4 million and the work is expected to take 12 months.
The former manufacturing facility is currently inactive, is zoned for commercial use and fenced in.
It includes a large, unoccupied industrial building and a 175-foot diameter wastewater treatment lagoon.
The site drops off rapidly toward a tributary stream bed and adjacent wetlands near a railroad trestle.
Groundwater is approximately 30 feet deep flowing toward the tributary.
The primary contaminants of concern are PCBs and metals – lead and cadmium.
Contaminants are in site-wide shallow soils, lagoon soils and shallow tributary sediments.
Remediation work includes excavation of lagoons, stabilizing and containing on-site soils exceeding a commercial use standards, restoration of tributary and adjacent wetland areas to unrestricted use, and installation of an engineered cover system to support commercial use of the site.
