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Fair State holds meeting on Smart Set Cleaners site cleanup
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is holding a public meeting, to explain the proposed cleanup of the former Smart Set Cleaners site at 16 Atlantic Avenue in Oceanside.
The cleaner operated between 1956 and 2005. In 1990 the Nassau County Department of Health inspected the store and found two floor drains. In 1998 the DOH sampled those drains and dry cleaning solvent was discovered in the groundwater. The DOH and the United States Environmental Protection Agency investigated the source of that groundwater contamination.
As a result, in 2001 the EPA oversaw the removal of contaminated soil from the rear of the store by the owner. The owner’s consultant, under the watchful eye of the EPA did a subsurface investigation that was completed in May 2001. Based on that investigation, a Soil Vapor Extraction system was installed by the owner and started in 2002. That system is still in operation, and quarterly reports are submitted to the EPA.
This site was added to the NYS Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites in November 2008 with EPA regulating the owner. The lead was transferred to the DEC in August 2009 at the request of EPA.
A public meeting on the proposed cleanup of the site is set for March 10, at 7:00 p.m. at the Oceanside Middle School Auditorium, 186 Alice Avenue, in Oceanside. The state DEC is accepting written comments about the proposed plan for 30 days, from Feb. 27, through Mar. 30.
Project documents are available at the following location(s).
Oceanside Library
Attn: Marcia Ratcliff
30 Davison Ave., Oceanside
Phone: (516) 766-2360
Project Related Questions
Melissa Sweet
Department of Environmental Conservation
Division of Environmental Remediation
625 Broadway, Albany, NY 12233-7015
518-402-9620
melissa.sweet@dec.ny.gov
Site-Related Health Questions
Scarlett McLaughlin
New York State Department of Health
Empire State Plaza Corning Tower 1787
Albany, NY 12237
518-402-7880
BEEI@health.ny.gov
