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Mapping Waste Setting the Stage to Clean-Up Niagara

Mapping Waste Setting the Stage to Clean-Up Niagara. Waste and Pollution Working Group The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo (CFGB ) The Urban Design Project, University at Buffalo May 2012. Mapping Waste - Setting the Stage to Clean-Up Niagara. Mapping Waste Goals:

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Mapping Waste Setting the Stage to Clean-Up Niagara

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  1. Mapping Waste Setting the Stage to Clean-Up Niagara Waste and Pollution Working Group The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo (CFGB) The Urban Design Project, University at Buffalo May 2012

  2. Mapping Waste - Setting the Stage to Clean-Up Niagara • Mapping Waste • Goals: • To map the hazardous waste environment of WNY • To make it available to members of WNYEA and publicly accessible • Long Term Goal:  Develop a broadly based strategy and campaign to clean-up and restore Niagara

  3. Project Area

  4. Mapping Waste - Setting the Stage to Clean-Up Niagara • Mapping Issues • Legacy (Inactive) and On-going (Active) • Hazardous Waste Sites (Inactive and Active) • Solid Waste (Inactive and Active) • Water Pollution • Air Pollution • Resource Extraction • Radioactive Waste (Active and Inactive) • Defense Related Sites

  5. Inactive Hazardous Waste Hazardous Waste Inactive EPA DEC Superfund Project Area Total: 13 Env. Remed. Superfund Project Area Total: 167 Brownfields Project Area Total: 98

  6. Inactive Hazardous Waste

  7. Inactive Hazardous Waste • NYS DEC Superfund Program

  8. Enlargement of urban areas Inactive Hazardous Waste

  9. Active Hazardous Waste Hazardous Waste Active EPA DEC RCRA* TSDF+ Project Area Total: 27 Bulk Stor. Project Area Total: 1744 TSDF+ Project Area Total: 18 LQG Project Area Total: 300 Cor. Act. Project Area Total: 33 TRIS ACRES • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) • * Some TSDFs are also LQGs and Corrective Action Sites • (as of 12/2011) • +Treatment, Storage, Disposal Facilities SSTS RMP

  10. US EPA Toxic Release Inventory System (TRIS) Active Hazardous Waste

  11. NYS DEC State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) Water Pollution * Map and data excludes Ballast Discharge and MS4 Permits.

  12. Resource Extraction Resource Extraction DEC Mined Land Project Area Total: 270 Wells Project Area Total:12,405

  13. NYS DEC Oil, Gas and Other Regulated Wells Program Resource Extraction

  14. Defense Related Sites USACE – FUSRAP (Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program) Sites of primarily radioactive materials USACE – DERP – FUDS (Defense Environmental Restoration Program - Formerly Used Defense Sites) Sites of non-radioactive hazardous waste

  15. Case Studies • Hickory Woods • Sycamore Village • 858 East Ferry • Clean Air Coalition in Tonawanda • Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (LOOW) • West Valley Nuclear Wastes

  16. Population Density and Superfund Sites ANALYSISEnvironmental Justice

  17. Superfund Sites within a Half-mile of a Public School : Buffalo Example # of schools within a half mile of Superfund Sites (21 out of 74 public schools in Buffalo) Niagara Co – 12 Erie Co – 24 Cattaraugus Co - 2 ANALYSIS:Environmental Justice

  18. ANALYSIS:WNY Compared to NYS • More than Our Fair Share of Problems? • US EPA and NYS DEC Superfund Sites • NYS DEC Brownfield Cleanup Program • US EPA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) • NYS DEC Solid Waste Program • US EPA Radiation Information System

  19. NYS DEC Superfund ANALYSIS WNY Compared to NYS

  20. US EPA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Treatment, Storage, and Disposal (TSD) Facilities WNY Compared to NYS

  21. Niagara Solid Waste Erie

  22. US EPA Radiation Information System • Only 8 sites in New York State – 2 in WNY • Niagara Falls Storage site in the Niagara County • West Valley Demonstration Project in Cattaraugus County • The Brookhaven National Laboratory in Suffolk County • The Colonie Interim Storage Site in Albany County • The Environmental Measurement Laboratory in New York County • LI Tungsten Corp. in Nassau County • The Radium Chemical Company Inc. in Queens County • The US DOE Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Saratoga County. ANALYSIS WNY Compared to NYS

  23. Conclusions • What does the study suggest? • Environmental Justice is threatened in WNY • 38 superfund sites within a half mile of a public school • 36 superfund sites within Potential Environmental Justice Areas. • WNY has a disproportionate share of serious contamination when considering both EPA and DEC Superfund and Radioactive Waste • With few exceptions, each county in the study area had more than 1.6% (the fair share) of almost every issue studied. • At least one of the three study area counties was near the top of the list in total number of sites with each contamination issue studied. • Of the 8 US EPA Radiation Sites in NYS, 2 are in WNY.

  24. Conclusions • What else did we learn/confirm? • Hazardous waste regulation is an evolving system and the regulatory framework is complex • Managing hazardous waste is a relatively new concept • Active Waste is much more dynamic that Legacy Waste • As program evolves to increase effectiveness and capacity, their complexity increases and public transparency decreases

  25. Mapping Waste - Setting the Stage to Clean-Up Niagara • Thank You!

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