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Topic: Discussion related to community issues

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Discussion related to community issues
FMC held an informational meeting on Tuesday, December 3, to bring village organizations up to date on plant activity and the remediation effort in and around the village.

The DEC will continue coordinating the remediation effort in 2020. To be done is State St. from Alfred to Vernon including the stub streets of William and Washington. Current information from the DEC indicates the properties on Robertson St. are clear including the two that are on State that corner with Robertson. There is also a few small areas at the school that need to be finished. 85 main Street has a new owner and will be remediated. It was not done in 2018 when that part of Main was cleaned up.

FMC will take over in 2021 with DEC over site. FMC will finish the CMS for the part of the tributary in OU5 (Francis to Pearson) which is currently being revised with changes requested by the DEC. After approval there will need to be a public comment period. FMC is looking for some flexibility in areas along the creek which are not residential. It remains to be seen if there will be any. There has been no decision on how the part of the tributary that runs under the canal will be cleaned. Actual remediation probably won't begin until 2021.

In addition, any properties the DEC began to remediate in 2020 which are not completed during the construction season will be finished by FMC in 2021.

The area on FMC property in the past referred to as the CAMU may be regraded and closed. The plan for this will need to be submitted to the DEC and if approved will have a public comment period.

FMC will continue with their effort to sample properties in the OU 6 (tributary north of Pearson Rd.) and OU 7 (Jeddo and Johnson Creek) areas during 2020. Only about 40% of property owners so far have agreed to sampling. This effort will most likely continue into 2021.

FMC continues to invest in the Middleport plant with capital improvements. There are 65 full time employees at the site with a current need for more part time employees.

Th Roy-Hart School is planning to replace the play ground and tennis courts lost to remediation the last couple of years. Remediation at the school should be competed in 2020.

The fmc-middleport.com web site will have a make over including organizing the remediation part by Operable Units (OU's). A visitor can click on a particular OU and go to all the pertinent information on that OU. This will be worked on in early 2020.

The next meeting will be held in the June 2020 time frame.



Posted by: BillA on Dec 06, 2019 - 06:32 PM  

Discussion related to community issues
Our elected officials have written letters to the Agencies and Governor Cuomo on our behalf.

To read the letter from State Senator George Maziarz click here.

To read the letter from Assemblywoman Jane Corwin which was also cosigned by Senator Maziarz click here.

To read Congresswoman Kathy Hochul's first letter click here.

To read Congresswoman Kathy Hochul's second letter click here.



Posted by: BillA on Aug 30, 2012 - 12:01 PM  

Discussion related to community issues
For a look at South Vernon Street as it looked after the 2003 remediation and as it looked before the remediation click here.

The first two images show South Vernon as it looked on September, 2003. The first looking north from near Niagara St. and the second looking south from South St.

The third and forth images show how the street looked from the same vantage points on August 8, 2003.



Posted by: BillA on Aug 27, 2012 - 12:36 PM  

Discussion related to community issues
At the March meeting of the Middleport Community Input Group, April Strong, who administers the Home Value Assurance Program sponsored by FMC, gave a presentation describing the plan, its benefits and differences with the previous plan.

This program is meant to support the appraised value of a home when the current resident and owner wishes to sell. The plan also includes rewards for timely selling. There are major differences between the current program and the Property Price Protection Plan FMC sponsored in the past and which ends June 15, 2009.

To view the presentation and other handouts made available at the MCIG meeting, go to the section in the Document Repository for the program by clicking here.



Posted by: BillA on Mar 14, 2009 - 12:52 PM  

Discussion related to community issues
The agency's answers to the questions members of the CIG have been asking has been posted in the document repository in the Agency/CIG Communications section. These answers will be discussed at the June 18 CIG meeting. Members of the EPA, DEC, and DOH will be in attendance.

Note: Click here to view the document.

Answers to Senator Maziarz's questions which were provided by the agencies for the seminar held October, 2007, in the fire hall can be viewed by clicking here.

To view FMC comments for these answers, click here.

To view questions based on the agencies latest answers discussed during the June CIG meeting click Read Full Article below.


Posted by: BillA on Jun 13, 2008 - 11:11 AM  Read full article: 'Agency's Answers to CIG Questions for June 18 Meeting' (1853 more words)

Discussion related to community issues
The CIG would like you to leave a comment or an opinion. This is how we know the way the community feels about the issues. You may leave one about any story on the site, any document in the repository or just one in general on what you think about remediation

Please click on the Read Full Article" link below to read how.



Posted by: BillA on Apr 28, 2008 - 02:22 PM  Read full article: 'Please Leave a Comment' (447 more words)

Discussion related to community issues
About one year ago, FMC proposed a Correction Action Manage Unit (CAMU) to be located on the east side of their property in Middleport. This unit would contain arsenic contaminated soils removed during the various remediation projects for permanent storage. These projects include village properties as well as the tributary (creek) and culvert running through the village. Under environmental regulation, no hazardous materials would be stored at the site. The government agencies (DEC/DOH/EPA) will have to approve FMC's application before a CAMU could be established. The formal application was submitted in March of this year.

Soils which have been removed during previous remediation activities such as the school yard, Vernon St. and Park Ave. are now located in the proposed CAMU area. This current soil storage area is considered temporary. The application to the agencies is for approval of a design for a CAMU which would be permanent. The application as it was submitted is in the document repository of this web site. Click here to go there directly. Click the "Read Full Article" link below for more of this story.




Discussion related to community issues
In the document repository (select from the main menu), under the sub heading "Document Repository" then under "Meeting Presentations" you will find a presentation made at the May, 2007 CIG meeting. In that document are three maps of Middleport which show properties that would get remediated if the trigger number was 20, 30 or 40 PPM (the ones in green). Look at those maps and find out about your property.

Click here to download and view the document from the repository. Click on the "Read Full Article" link below for more on this story.




Posted by: BillA on Apr 06, 2008 - 11:50 AM  Read full article: 'Is your property on the agency's list for possible remediation?' (212 more words)

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