HURLEY – The former Town of Hurley Landfill on Dug Hill Road, has been classified a New York State Superfund site by the State Department of Environmental Conservation due to contamination from the chemicals PFOA and PFOS.
The designation stems from the DEC’s May 2021 “Comprehensive Plan to Address Priority Solid Waste Sites for Potential Impacts on Drinking Water” means Hurley will have access to more than $1 million from the state for remediation.
“We were expecting this. It means we are eligible for funding,” Hurley Supervisor Melinda McKnight said of the Superfund designation in a prepared statement.
She noted the contamination dates to the period when the landfill operated from the 1960s to the mid-1990s, but that the presence of PFOS wasn’t known until after the state started testing for it in 2018.
