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Officials talk new Dewey Loeffel cleanup

Jun 14, 2019 3:45 pm
Emilia Teasdale is reporting in The Columbia Paper Kinderhook Town Board member Patsy Leader said the town's community advisory group met June 3 in Nassau about the newest clean-up efforts from the Dewey Loeffel Superfund Site, as well as an additional dumping site found on the Loeffel family property. Leader said she sent representatives from the Kinderhook Lake Corporation, a non-profit that owns and maintains the lake, to the meeting. She said the advisory group and the federal Environmental Protection Agency are looking at where water is possibly impacted by the chemicals from the new site. Town Supervisor Pat Grattan said he had talked to the Columbia County Health Department about getting test kits to test water for contamination. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper