Contact Information
Department of Health
New York State
Director - John Olm
Project Mgr. - J Nealon
Phone 800-458-1158 x27880
Dept Environmental
Conservation
New York State
Director - Mark Mahon
Site Mgr - Dan Eaton
Phone 800-458-1158 x27880
US E.P.A.
Region 2 - N.Y., N.J.
Director - Jeanne M Fox
Phone 212-637-5000
General Counsel
Scott C Fulton
Phone 202-260-8040
Emergency Management
Director - Edward Sulki
Phone 732-906-6879
Site Manger
David Rosoff
Phone local - 914 687-7113
NY State Assembly
District 99 Assemblyman
Patrick Manning
Phone 914 221-3400
NY State Senator
District 99 Senator
Steven Saland
Phone 914 463-0840
US Congress
Congresswoman
Susan Kelly
Phone 914 897-5200
Dutchess County Health
Commisioner
Michael Caldwell
Director - Lee Felshin
Phone 914 486-3400
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National Priorities Site 1/11/2001
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified our backyard as one of the worst contaminated sites in New York State. The groundwater, in an area containing 250 homes, has been contaminated with the silicon chip cleaning solution, tetrachloroethene (PCE). This Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) is a known human carcinogen. It is documented to have caused Liver & Kidney cancer, skin rashes, birth defects, and mental problems. What a nice thing to find in your drinking water!
East Fishkill - Home to 5 Superfund Sites
Now that the EPA is proposing the Shenandoah Road Groundwater Contamination site on the National Priorities List (NPL), East Fishkill has reached State and Federal fame! This latest site joins the East Fishkill IBM facility #1, the East Fishkill Hosner Mountain Road landfill #2, the East Fishkill Royal Carting facility #3, and the Schlueter Road site #4 in the dubious distinction of having more toxic waste sites than any other area in the state of New York. While Tampa is displaying flags showing "Home of Super Bowl XXXV" East Fishkill needs a new banner proclaiming "Home of 5 Superfund Sites".
Water from the Hudson - No thanks!
The truth behind the plan to bring a $30 million dollar pipe line from the Hudson River to East Fishkill was announced by Patacki's office last week. It seems that as part of the deal to lure the $2.5 billion IBM Plant to East Fishkill a "clean" water supply was promised. Gee, six months ago, Pete Idema told us that this water was for the residents of East Fishkill! Pete also mentioned that IBM did not need the water since they are located over one of the largest aquifers in the world (the same one that supplies Fishkill, Town of Fishkill, East Fishkill (including Shenandoah)and several other towns in the valley). IBM currently draws over one and one half million gallons of water a day from the aquifer, returning the waste water into the Fishkill Creek. An IBM spokeswoman is quoted as saying the water returned to the aquifer is cleaner than when IBM pumps it out! Sorry IBM, but that is no surprise to us. After all it was IBM who "spilled" thousands of gallons of tetrachloroethene (PCE)into the aquifer in the 1970's. How many parts per billon of PCE are you extracting from the water and releasing into the air? The IBM facility is expected to need an additional one million gallons per day for the new facility. What comes in must go out,
or in this case, since the Fishkill Creek is an intake to the aquifer, we will be, all too soon, drinking their industrial waste.
VOC Registry - No Health Screening!
On December 14th, PhD's from the New York State Department of Health (DOH) came to the Shenandoah Bethel Baptist Church. They came to show residents how to fill out the forms so that the residents might be entered into DOH computerized VOC registry.
There seems to be a complete misunderstanding about the need for "health screening" and the effects of tetrachloroethene on humans. The publications coming from NYS DOH quote studies performed in the 1970's. Since that time, disasters like the PCE contamination in Woburn Massachusetts have re-written the ATSDR statistics on PCE effects on humans. Massachusetts General Hospital performed "health screening" consisting of blood tests, liver & kidney biopsies, as well as compiling medical data on the families in the area. Cornell University School of Medicine has a program of health screening for people exposed to Volatile Organic Compounds. Why then cannot the DOH accept the medical documentation that for twenty years has been available to prove the dangers of PCE contamination? Is some big blue power effecting their thinking?
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