NEW YORK STATE PUBLIC INFORMATION FACT SHEET DEPARTMENT OF January 2002 Orange Plaza Shopping Center Town of Wallkill, Orange County Site No. V00415-3 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION Dear Interested Citizen: ORANGE PLAZA This Fact Sheet is to inform you about the upcoming site investigation SHOPPING planned for the former Orange Plaza Shopping Center located in the Town CENTER of Wallkill, New York. This investigation is being performed to determine whether any TOWN OF contamination remains beneath the former Orange Plaza Dry Cleaners, a WALLKILL, NY tenant in the former Orange Plaza Shopping Center. The current site owner, VOLUNTARY Middletown I Resources, L.P., which is not believed to have caused the CLEANUP contamination, is voluntarily performing this investigation in cooperation PROJECT with the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). A Voluntary Cleanup Agreement (VCA) has been signed by both Middletown I Resources, L.P. and the DEC, and an Investigation Work Plan has been Documents relating to this approved by the DEC. Investigation may be found in the following SITE LOCATION Document Repositories: The site consists of a portion of the former Orange Plaza Shopping Center, Thrall Public Library located at 444-480 Dunning Road, near the Route 17 interchange with Route 11-19 Depot Street 211 (see Figure 1). The site is currently under construction as a parking lot Middletown, New York 10940 for a new mall. As shown on Figure 2, the area to be investigated is beneath Mon. - Thurs.: 9:00am - 8:00pm and in front of the former dry cleaner near the northwestern entrance of the Friday: 9:00am - 6:00pm former mall. Sat.: 10:00am - 5:00pm Sun.: 1:00pm - 5:00pm (845) 341-5454 SITE HISTORY NYSDEC Region 3 The site was operated as a dry cleaner on the first floor of the mall between 21 South Putt Corners Road 1987 and 1992. The mall structure was demolished in the fall of 2000 as part New Paltz, NY 12561 Attn.: Michael Knipfing of the redevelopment of the site. New mall buildings are set back 200' from Mon-Fri: 8:30-4:45 the former mall, and the area of concern is now beneath a reconstructed (845) 256-3154 parking lot. NYSDEC Central Office ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS 625 Broadway Albany, NY 12233-7015 Attention: George Heitzman In September 2000, an investigation in front of the former dry cleaners found Mon-Fri: 8:00-4:30 a small area of subsurface soil contaminated with Perchloroethylene (PCE), Phone: (518) 402-9620 a common dry cleaning solvent. Based on 12 soil borings, this contaminated soil was estimated to be 5 feet by 8 feet in area and less than 8.5 feet deep. In December 2000, this soil was excavated and removed from the site, and confirmatory samples were taken from the bottom and side walls of the excavation. Due to contamination found in some of these samples, an additional volume of soil was excavated from the site in January 2001, including an area beneath the former dry cleaning building. Confirmatory soil samples taken from this second excavation were all within acceptable DEC soil cleanup guidelines. The total area of excavation and the locations of confirmatory samples are shown on Figure 2. UPCOMING INVESTIGATION The purpose of the upcoming investigation is to determine whether past remedial activities have completely addressed contamination at the site, to investigate a broader area of the site, and to investigate groundwater, if it is encountered, beneath the site. Six soil borings will be drilled to a depth of 8 feet, or to the top of bedrock, and two soil samples will be taken from each boring for laboratory analysis. If groundwater is found in the soil above bedrock, it will also be sampled. The locations of these borings are shown on Figure 2. FUTURE ACTIVITIES Upon completion of the investigation, a Voluntary Cleanup Report will be prepared that summarizes the investigation results and recommends what, if any, additional site cleanup is necessary. After the report is approved by the DEC, it will be placed in the Document Repositories for public review. If any remedial measures are necessary, the public will be provided with a 30-day period to comment on the Voluntary Cleanup Agreement and associated remediation work plans. The remediation work plans will be placed in the Document Repositories, a notice will be published in the Environmental Notice Bulletin (ENB), and a Fact Sheet will be mailed before the start of the comment period describing the proposed action. If no additional remediation is necessary, the Volunteer will be issued a release from future environmental liability relating to this PCE contamination. The documents currently on file in the Document Repositories listed on the front of this Fact Sheet are the Voluntary Cleanup Agreement, dated February 26, 2001, and the approved VCA Investigation Work Plan. CONTACTS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: About the Site: For Health-related Concerns: For Citizen Participation Activities: George Heitzman, P.E. Stephanie Selmer NYSDEC Albany Office NYSDOH Michael Knipfing 625 Broadway 547 River Street NYSDEC Region 3 Headquarters Albany, NY 12233-7015 Troy, NY 12180 21 South Putt Corners Road (518) 402-9260 or (518) 402-7880 or New Paltz, NY 12561 Toll-Free 1-800-342-9296 1-800-458-1158, ext. 27880 (845) 256-3154 (answering machine) Figure 1 goes here Figure 2 goes here Bureau of Eastern Remedial Action NYS Department of Environmental Conservation 625 Broadway Albany, NY 12233-7015 Attn: George Heitzman City Editor City Editor City Editor El Clarin Ellenville Press Mid Hudson Times 48 Broadway P.O.Box 31 P.O. 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