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How Toxic Gases Can Affect Your Home--FREE public workshop July 12

Concerned about the toxic gases being released from the contaminated soil in the Marbledale Quarry toxic dump by construction of the massive Marriott Hotel project?

Come to a FREE public workshop, "Vapor Intrusion 101," on Wednesday, July 12 at 7:00 pm at the Grinton I Will Branch of the Yonkers Public Library, Senator Flynn Room, 1500 Central Park Avenue, Yonkers.

The presenter is Lenny Siegel, of the Center for Public Enfironmental Oversight (www.cpeo.org). He will explain how the air in your home or office may be affected by gases released from the contaminated soil.

To RSVP and for more information, email OurAirOurLives@gmail.com. 

To see recent media coverage click here.
In a careless and arbitrary move, the Tuckahoe Village Planning Board, on October 18th, 2016, prioritized expedience over public health and denied the requirement for an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) of the 163 room Mariott Springhill Suites project on the Marbledale Road Quarry Dump. Read this article.

This is the current situation as of March 17 ,2107

Chemical Tanks and Thousands of Canisters Found buried in the Marbledale Road Toxic Quarry Dump POISONING OUR AIR!

Independent testing done during Bilwin Developments' activities on the Marbledale Road Quarry Dump confirm that dangerous chemical vapors are being released into our air during the construction and remediation activities.

Witnesses to the dumping, and independent experts, all testified that the Marbledale Road Quarry Dump contains great amounts of hazardous waste.

 

Buried chemical tanks and canisters have been found less than 15' below the surface.

The chemical tanks and canisters found are significant proof of hazardous waste in the dump.

The Marbledale Road Hazardous Waste Quarry Dump is more than 80 feet deep, full of hazardous waste.

What is going to happen when they drill 180+ pylons into  80+ feet of  hazardous waste?

The Poisoning of Our Air!

Our Independent experts agree that when then hazardous waste, toxic chemical vapors, and pools of contaminants, are agitated by the drilling and construction actions, there will be toxic release. 

These construction activities on the Marbledale Road Hazardous Waste Dump are dangerous and will impact our Communities. 

TAKE ACTION:

Tell all of the Public Officials, Repeatedly:

This is unacceptable, and we need to be protected.

Odors in the Air, are they contaminated vapors? Report it!    Community members have reported sulfur and sweet chemical odors in the air. If you smell something, please report it immediately to: The local Fire Department: 911 & The Westchester County Health Department:  (914) 813-5000, &, your local officials. It is important to report everything for all of our protection!

The Marriott Springhill Suites Hotel is being built on the Marbledale Road Hazardous Waste Dump. We are not protected from the chemical vapor release. The Air Monitoring being used by the developer is incapable of detecting the most toxic chemical vapors.  The Air Monitoring being used by the developer is incapable of  warning anyone about the most hazardous chemical vapors. The Air Monitoring that they are using is incapable of detecting the most toxic chemical vapors at hazardous levels.  They are not protecting our communities: i) They are not detecting the hazardous chemical vapors. ii) They are not treating the hazardous chemical vapors.  iii) They are not tenting the hazardous waste dump. iv) They are not tracking the toxic contaminants in the ground water. v) They are not tracking the toxic vapor release from the contaminated ground water.  Do not allow them to continue to placate you by telling you that this project and these activities are safe: make them PROVE that it is safe.

The Village of Tuckahoe has the authority to protect Our Air from Toxic Vapor Release & our Water from Contamination.   The Village of Tuckahoe has the authority to require Full Health Assessments of all of the Dump Activities. The Village of Tuckahoe has the authority to require the Most Protective Air Monitoring systems. The Village of Tuckahoe has the authority to require all State of the Art Community Protections against Hazardous Toxic Contaminant Release.

 

The Village of Tuckahoe Boards Allowed the Hazardous Contaminant Release: Tell them to Stop it!

The Village of Tuckahoe, and  the Village of Tuckahoe Boards, have permitted Bilwin Developement's intrusive dump activities.

Demand that the Village of Tuckahoe stops Poisoning Our Air.

Demand that ALL of your government officials take actions now to protect us from further toxic contaminant release.

The Air does not know boundaries. 

The Groundwater Flows under our homes,  under our playgrounds,  into our River, releasing vapors all the way.

 

The current situation as of February 27, 2017

 

Chemical Vapors are poisoning our air now.
This is your Air.  You must Tell them to stop.

We need your assistance: we can not do this without you.

We are only a handful of active community members, and we can not protect you by ourselves.

 

They are not stopping.
Our fears are being realized by their rush to build.

 

If you are concerned about the chemical vapors and dust being released into our air now, it is time for you to take consistent, and persistent, action.  

1) High levels of Chemical Vapors found on site: Just released Data from Bilwin Developments' field testing of October – November, 2016:   The shallow soil of the Brownfield Site has very high levels of chemical vapors: 100es - 1000es ppm (parts per million)! They are digging in this shallow soil now. The Short-term Safety Guideline Levels for the carcinogenic chemicals TCE, PCE, benzene, and Freon-11 are:  TCE  is 0.0037 ppm. PCE is 0.044 ppm. Benzene  is 0.407 ppm.  Freon-11 is 1.6 ppm.  But, the current Community Air Monitoring Program (CAMP)  is NOT Designed to Protect us from these and other carcinogenic chemicals at their safety levels.

2) THE CAMP is substandard and does not protect our community:   i) The CAMP is designed to only tell them to stop work if the overall concentration of non-specific vapors reaches 5ppm for 15 minutes or more. The threshold is set too high.  The concentrations of many volatile chemicals found on the contaminated site should never be allowed to reach 5ppm or more.     ii) This CAMP which is supposed to be designed to “protect”  the community from harmful emissions can not even detect the dangerous Freons! iii) Furthermore, if the plume does not happen to go in the direction of any of the monitoring stations, than it sails by, undetected, and out into our community.   iv) The current CAMP is supposed to consist of 4 PID's and 1 FID. a) PID's can only detect non-specific concentrations of  VOC's (Volatile Organic Compounds) at 0.1ppm. b) PID's are unable to tell what the chemicals are in the concentration.  c) PID's can not detect any Freons or Methane at all.  d) The FID can detect overall VOC's at 0.1PPM, but it can not identify the chemicals.  The FID can detect the presence of a substance,  including Freon and Methane, but it can not tell that it is Freon or Methane, it just indicates that something is there.      They need to protect us by monitoring for the specific chemicals not the lump sum.

3) We are being exposed now to a mixture of chemicals that cause cancer, respiratory and other health issues. Their next phase of work is even worse, as rapid compaction and 180 pilings will provide more pathways for contaminated vapors and dust to escape into our air.  In addition to the increase in ground water contamination from any activity that will disturb the chemical filled drums and pools.

4) TAKE ACTION:   A) Organize your neighbors, friends and family.   B) Go to the Site and take pictures and document what is occurring.    C) Tell Them Repeatedly: Let those in charge of this project know that this is unacceptable, and you need protections. Call them all consistently and:

I) Demand that they Protect our community and immediately provide Air Monitoring that measures the specific chemicals in the vapors that are poisoning our air now. Specifically require that they must monitor for the trace levels of: TCE, PCE, Freons, Benzene and Vinyl Chloride during all remediation and construction activities. II) Tell them to protect their citizens and stop all construction work when the critical action limits of the chemicals, including TCE, PCE, Freons, Benzene and Vinyl Chloride, are detected. The current stop work action level of 5ppm is far too high, and not protective.    III) Insist that all of the construction and remediation activities be conducted inside a tent to contain the vapors. IV) Demand Daily Community Air monitoring in the neighboring streets that will detect the specific chemicals in the Vapors. V) Demand that they tell us the Health Risks of all of their actions.  Tell them that We must have A Full Quantitative Community Health Risk Assessment of all of their activities on and around the dump site. VI) Demand Full Ambient Air Pathway Assessment. VII) Demand Full Vapor Pathway Assessment. VIII) Insist on 3rd Party Independent Oversight which is: a) Allowed access to monitor all on-site activities. b) Allowed timely access to all on-site and off-site data. c) Specifically  focused on the Health, Safety and Welfare of the Community, and not the time-line of the construction. d) Chosen and approved by community members who have demonstrated that community safety is their primary concern. IX) Require that they Release all of the Data immediately. Despite repeated requests, they still have not released all of the data to Dr. Hughes.   X) Require that they Release all Data and all Scopes of Work, and All Drafts of Scopes of Work to Dr. Hughes as soon as they are made ready to Mr. Mike Musso the Village Consultant.  Of note, they are now ending all conference call communication with Dr. Hughes. XI) Insist that they use geo-physical techniques to locate buried drums, tanks and canisters before they dig and potentially expose our community to hazards.

XII) Please call these public officials & Marriott Executives and tell them to take urgent action at the Marbledale Quarry Dump site NOW!  Call them.  Tell them to protect the health and safety of our communities!  Village of Tuckahoe Mayor Ecklond : 914-961-3100 ext 6 Village of Tuckahoe Board of Trustees : 914-961-3100 ext 4 Town of Eastchester Supervisor Colavita: 914-771-3351 Village of Bronxville Mayor Mary Marvin:  914-337-6500 County Legislator Sheila Marcotte: 914-995-2817 County Executive Rob Astorino: 914-995-2900 NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos: 518-402-8545 NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo: 518-474-8390 NYS Department of Health Commissioner Howard Zucker:  518-474-2011  Marriott Chief Executive Arne Sorenson (301) 380-3000 x3804364 Arne.Sorenson@marriott.com Marriot Senior Vice President Nell Williams (301) 380-2664 Nell.Williams@marriott.com Executive Chairman  J.W. Marriott, Jr 301/380-3000 Marriot Board of Director Ambassador Susan C. Schwab, Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy 301-405-6347 sschwab@umd.edu     They are playing games with the air we breathe. They are using monitors that can not detect these dangerous contaminants. This is your air.

5) Legal Action update:  A) T.R.O: David Gordon, Esq., made a motion for a  T.R.O. (Temporary Restraining Order), to stop the digging, and exposures to our community, on February 8, 2017.  The Judge hearing the case then allowed the defendants until 3:00pmFebruary 10, 2017 to respond to our motion, but did not grant David Gordon, Esq. any ability to respond after the February 8, 2017 appearance.   On Monday, February 13, 2017, the Judge did not grant the T.R.O. B) The Injunction Motion:  the parties are currently briefing the injunction. The papers will go to the judge on March 17, 2017.  The judge will then make a decision after March 17, 2017.  We do not know the Judge's schedule, and therefore we can not predict when he will be able to decide on the injunction.     C) Article 78: David Gordon, Esq., filed the amended petition on Thursday, February 16, 2017.  The defendants will then answer on March 30, 2017.  The return date (when all the papers go to the judge) is April 24, 2017.

6) They are Exposing us to the chemical vapors:    These contaminants are being released into our air now as Bilwin’s contractors dig up soil from “hotspots,” and load it into trucks, and drive the soil—uncovered—through our village. How do we know?  Their own testing says that the contaminated vapors are there, in the soil.

7) Piles and rapid-compaction dangers:     Once the hot-spot removal is completed, they will be doing more intrusive work. This includes drilling 180 pilings through 80+ feet of fill material (lots of incinerator ash) known to contain petroleum products, chlorinated solvents, heavy metals, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, and pesticides.

8) 1000'es of Freon Canisters found on-site:    The Developer's testing data revealed that the site has high levels of Freon gas. Last week, they uncovered 1000’s of old aerosol cans which contain Freon. These cans have been leaking for years. Who knows how many more are buried at the site?  What about drums and tanks that are leaking on the site?   Dr. Hughes repeatedly referenced the very possible presence of Freon canisters in the site, and now some of them have been found.

9) Broken Trust: Digging up 3 holes at a time: The Village of Tuckahoe's Environmental Consultant Mike Musso repeatedly stated that there would only be one spot dug up at time to minimize vapor release.  Witnesses have reported 3 holes being dug up at the same time.  Multiple work is visible in this picture.

10) Broken Trust:   Clouds of dangerous contaminated dust while they work.    The soil site on the site is contaminated with heavy metals including lead, arsenic, barium, copper, cadmium, and PAH's.

11) Broken Trust: Dangerous Contaminated dust on the street.

12) Broken Trust: Uncovered holes.     The Village of Tuckahoe's Environmental Consultant Mike Musso, and Bilwin Developments' Environmental Consultant Bill Canovan, have repeatedly explained that the holes are supposed to be covered at all times to minimize the release of vapors.   Where are the CAMP monitors?

13) Broken Trust: Uncovered Truck full of contaminated soil and waste.  Releasing contaminated vapors and dust as it travels through our streets?

14) How can we Trust?: Where are the CAMP monitors?  Multiple Hot Spot Digging at a time?    Witness have reported not seeing the Air monitors in the downwind position, and sometimes not seeing the monitors at all.  Where is the evidence that the monitors are in place? There are supposed to be 4 PID's and 1 FID.  The picture here is a witness account from February 22, 2017.

15) Odors in the Air, are the contaminated vapors?     Community members who live on Hall Ave in Eastchester, and Verdi Ave and Coolidge Street in Tuckahoe, have reported odors in the air. If you smell something, please report it immediately to: The local Fire Department: 911, The Westchester County Health Department:  (914) 813-5000, &, your local officials.

16) Waverly School Air Pathways from the Dump:  Besides the ineffective Design of the CAMP system, The Air monitor appears to be outside of the pathway to the school.

17) Broken Trust: There are still not any off site Ground Water monitoring wells to indicate the pathways of the ground water contaminants toward Bronxville.

 

a) We have been repeatedly told that Gramatan Springs was in operation for years,  but, that after the dumping in the Quarry began, the water went bad.

b) Therefore, know that ~50 years ago the ground water was contaminated.

c) We know that now there are extraordinarily high levels of TCE and PCE in the bedrock ground water on the Brownfield Site.

Village of Tuckahoe Planning Board Meeting on  October 19, 2016:
Over 2,700 local community members signed the Petition for a Full Environmental Impact Statement of the Marriott Springhill Suites Hotel on the Marbledale Road Quarry Hazardous Waste Dump.
Our Communities needed to know how the aggressive disturbance of the Hazardous Waste in the Dump would Impact our Air, Water and Environment.

Despite over 2,700 community signatures on the Petition,
and a Positive Motion by Planning Board Commissioner Melba Caliano for a Full Environmental Impact Statement,
Village of Tuckahoe Planning Board Commissioners Claire Gorman, Ann Marie Ciaramella, and Raymond Nerenberg ignored their own community and voted against a Full Environmental Impact Statement.
In addition, Chairwoman Ciaramella, Commissioner Claire Gorman, and Commission Raymond Nerenberg did not allow any of the over 200 members of the community who were in the hall, to speak.
When the Marriott Springhill Suites Project came up for the vote, Commissioner Melba Caliano cited many specific criteria why the Marriott Springhill Suites Project Proposal on the Marbledale Road Quarry Dump was too vague to be approved.
Commissioner Melba Caliano and Commissioner Barra both voted against the hotel on the dump proposal.
The Community filled room applauded them both.
Yet, Commissioners Claire Gorman, Ann Marie Ciaramella, and Raymond Nerenberg all approved the hotel on the dump proposal.
The Community responded with boos, tears, and words of frustration.

Now, we are faced with the dangerous situation of toxic contaminant release into our air and ground water.

 

The current situation as of January, 2017:

Dr. Donald Hughes, P.E., P.H.D.,  was on the phone for over an hour on 1/10/17 with Mike Musso (Tuckahoe Village Consultant),  to no avail!

Mike Musso, Tuckahoe, Bilwin Developments, the DEC and the DOH are planning to dig shortly, without any protections or monitoring of the Toxic Contaminated Vapors!

  

What has been happening:

3) Large amounts of Data still has not been made available to Dr. Hughes from the DEC &  the Village of Tuckahoe.

4) Bilwin Developments began digging on the site on December 27, 2016, without any Safety Protocols in place.

5) Although Dr. Hughes, P.E., P.H.D. does speak with Mr. Mike Musso (the Tuckahoe Village Consultant) on a bi-monthly  basis, 
Mr. Musso does rarely acts on any of Dr. Hughes recommendations. 

6) Dr. Donald Hughes, P.E., P.H.D., and Mr. Paul Rubin, Hydrogeologist, have been recommending, continuously over this past year,  that the DEC and the Village of Tuckahoe do: Community Protective Testing & Assessments before any remediation or construction activities. These recommendations have been ignored. 

7) Dr. Donald Hughes, P.E., P.H.D., has assessed all data that has been made available to him. All of Dr. Hughes recommendations are supported by findings and reports submitted to the DEC and the Village of Tuckahoe.

8) All on-site testing is done by H.E.S. (developer's consultant). All off-site testing data is done by the D.E.C.'s contractors.

9) They are ready to dig without completed testing.

Please help us fund: An Injunction,  & The Environmental Experts who are Protecting & Advocating for us.   Please Contribute $50, $100, $500, $1000, or whatever you can.      The Coalition is funding our community members in the Article 78 legal action.  The Article 78 is a costly action, and we need our community's support.  Because of recent activities by Bilwin Developements, we need to file an injunction to halt all digging,  and prevent further toxic release into our communities.   The Article 78 seeks to overturn the dangerous, and premature decisions that have lead us to this hazardous situation.   Please help us fund the Environmental Experts, Their support is crucial to our efforts.  When you can't breathe, nothing else matters any more.  CONTRIBUTE HERE by Credit Card

This Map of the Off-Site Vapors & this Data below  show that the Dump is contaminating us now.  Toxics are seeping out by air and water now!

Key for Nov. 2016 Off-Site Vapor Map:  (Off-Site = off of the Marriott Site) Long term Ambient Air NYDEC Safety Guidelines: PCE (Perchloroethylene): 4.0u/m3 TCE (Trichloroethylene): 0.2 u/m3 DCE (Dicholoroethylene): 63 u/m3  VC (Vinyl Chloride): 0.11 u/m3 (Not to exceed these values).

1) Contaminated Soil vapors, 100xs times the DEC’s Air Safety Guidelines, including TCE & PCE, found on & off of the Marriott site: in our communities.  These contaminated vapors are widespread.  They have left the dump and are in our air and are moving under Marbledale Road and surfacing in the surrounding areas.  (Testing Data Nov, 2016) 2) The Community Air Safety Monitoring Protocol (CAMP) does NOT detect Contaminated Vapors.  They are digging in the ground and releasing untold amounts of toxic vapors into our air, without any community safety!

3) TCE was found in the Air at 8x's the Safety guidelines! TCE at 1.6 ug/m3 was found in the Ambient Air on Marbledale Road.  DEC’s Air Safety guideline is 0.2 ug/m3.   (The Ambient Air is the air above the ground. This reading was taken more than a month before any trench digging started).   4) The DEC is supposed to identify all sources of contaminants, the contaminant pathways, and the contaminant impacts, before any remediation or construction activities. But, they did not! Now our air is being poisoned.  Poisoned by what is coming off of the dump, by vapor and water, even before they start digging!  Poisoned by what they are releasing into our air with all of Bilwin's activities!

5) Groundwater Contamination in the Bedrock Horrifyingly high & giving off Toxic Vapors on their path to Bronxville! These toxic contaminants are volatile and emanate toxic vapors. The ground water is flowing into Bronxville. The Vapor Pathways must be found! The NYDEC groundwater safety standard for each contaminate listed is: 5.0 ug/L. Nov. 2016 Testing results: PCE  = 6000 ug/L TCE = 6,600 ug/L 1,2-Dichloroethylene =4,100 ug/L Trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene = 150 ug/L Vinyl Chloride = 490 ug/L These contaminants were found dissolved in the bedrock water.  The DEC erroneously asserted that the bedrock would filter carcinogens out of the water.  The water is not filtered.  It is obvious that these frighteningly high toxins are moving with the groundwater, toward, and into Bronxville, and giving off vapors as they go..

These are highly carcinogenic contaminants!  This is a list of just some of the Contaminants that will be released by Vapor into our communities when they start digging into the Marriott Dump Site:

Let all officials know about the dangers we face as a community over Bilwin Development's premature excavation of the Marbledale Road Toxic Dump site without the proper precautions in place. The additional testing has not been completed, and there has not been any Risk Assessement. Yet,  they have already begun to dig at the site.   ​ Perchloroethylene (PCE)Short-term exposure to high levels of perchloroethylene can cause buildup of fluid in the lungs, eye and respiratory irritation, severe shortness of breath, sweating, nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, sleepiness, confusion, difficulty speaking and walking, and lightheadedness. ​Read More at:​ ​Tox Town Toxics Use Reduction Institute Map of PCE Soil Vapors found on the Marriott Site Trichloroethylene (TCE) Relatively short-term exposure of animals to trichloroethylene resulted in harmful effects on the nervous system, liver, respiratory system, kidneys, blood, immune system, heart, and body weight. Exposure to trichloroethylene in the workplace may cause scleroderma (a systemic autoimmune disease). Read more at: Toxic Substances Portal - Trichloroethylene (TCE) Human Health Effects of Trichloroethylene: Key Findings and Scientific IssuesTrichloroethylene Map of TCE Soil Vapors found on the Marriott Site Those are just two of the over 40 carcinogenic chemicals that are in and around the Quarry Dump Marriott Site.

Volunteer - We Need You

We are a group of volunteers and we need assistance with a large variety of tasks and events. Help us protect our community!

 

Please contact us at:

by email:

OurAirOurLives@gmail.com

&

MarbledaleRoad@gmail.com

by text: (914) 714 8933

by voice: (914) 309 3650

 

Village of Tuckahoe Planning Board Members:

Please write a letter to each member individually to guarantee delivery:

Chairperson Ann Marie Ciaramella

Commissioner Raymond Nerenberg

Commissioner Eric Fang

Commissioner Clare Gorman

Commissioner David Barra

Commissioner Melba Caliano

 Address:

 Village of Tuckahoe Planning Board

c/o Village of Tuckahoe Building Department,

 65 Main St, Tuckahoe, NY 10707

 914-961-3100 & (914) 961-8148

Testing: 

i)              They still have not followed the DEC’s guidelines to Characterize (test) the majority of the site. 

ii)             Currently Only 5 test holes go to 75’, the rest are only at 15’. 

Less than 10% (in some cases less than 5%) of the soil in each of those boring holes is being tested.

iii)            They are still refusing to locate buried drums and tanks.

iv)            Mr. Canovan repeatedly says that they ‘can not test everything’, they should at a minimum follow the DEC’s guidelines and test the Majority of the 3.43acre, 85’ – 100’ deep site.

v)             To much unknown Toxic Waste = DANGER to YOU.

What you need to know:

I) Dynamic compaction: Bilwin Developments (the Volunteer) may be using a technique called "dynamic compaction".  This technique entails a large weight of 3 - 36 tons, dropped repeatedly from a crane, to purposely send intense vibrations throughout the hazardous waste and ash.

The site will be repeatedly hit with the heavy weight. When this occurs, there will be contaminated dust and vapor release. Buried chemical filled drums, containers, and pressurized tanks, when hit with this technique, will breach.  Dynamic Compaction will disrupt the hazardous toxic waste.

Sudden releases of vapors and dust threatens the health of our community.

Due to the fact that the hazardous waste, and ash, in the Tuckahoe Marbledale Road Quarry Dump, may not be stable enough to withstand the weight of the finished parking lot, dynamic compaction is the mostly like proposed method.

This will certainly cause disruptive vibrations in the area.

Please see these videos of dynamic compaction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK52O9SBIFA&app=desktop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRvuu0P2MA

II) Witnesses to the Dumping:

There are more eyewitness of hazardous waste dumping in the Tuckahoe Marbledale Road Quarry Dump.  They recall 55-gallon drums, barrels, tanks, transformers, incinerator ash, chemical waste, pharmaceutical waste, and industrial waste.  The site was so volatile that it used to spontaneously combust.
III) Tell the Public Officials to PROTECT US:

1) Demand a Full Environmental Impact Study (FEIS) of the Marriott Springhill Suites Project on the Marbledale Road Quarry Dump.

The Petition for the FEIS has over 2,000 signatures!

2) Demand Full and Comprehensive Testing, Evaluation, Assessment and Risk Assessment of the Entire Marbledale Road Quarry Dump BEFORE any Construction and/or Remediation work is started.

3) Demand that the Final Remedial Action Work Plan be Revised after the FEIS, Comprehensive Assessments and Evaluations.

4) Demand that a moratorium be placed on all remediation and construction activities until the complete assessments and evaluations are done.

5) Demand Full Transparency of all testing, assessment, remediation and construction documents: that ALL documents be placed into a public online downloadable site.

6) Demand Full Transparency of everything that has occurred, and will occur, in relation to the Tuckahoe Marbledale Road Quarry dump.
7) Make your Demands at the Meeting & in Writing!  Deliver your letters to the Tuckahoe Planning Board before the meeting, at the meeting!

IV) Dr. Donald Hughes: Sept 6, 2016 Comments on the Planned Remediation of the Marbledale Road Quarry Dump.

V) Videos: https://www.facebook.com/TuckahoeToxicTrench/videos

The Town of Eastchester communities include: Eastchester, the Village of Tuckahoe, and the Village of Bronxville.
Children are welcome at the meeting.

Dioxin and Dust Hazards of the Marbledale Road Quarry Dump,
by Dr. Donald Hughes of Hughes Environmental Consulting, August 8, 2016

Soil Vapor Contaminant and Hot Spot Assessment of the Marbledale Road Quarry Dump,
by Dr. Donald Hughes of Hughes Environmental Consulting, August 8, 2016

Failures of the Remedial Action Work Plan - Draft Comments
by Dr. Donald Hughes, PHD, P.E., August 19, 2016

Further reports,  maps, witness accounts and comments, please see below

Information = Safety
Please Contribute to pay the Experts!
Your contributions are tax deductible
Please contribute by credit card at www.MarbledaleRoad.org

Urgent: Write & call the your public officials

Please Sign the following 2 Petitions:
1) Change.org petition for a Full Environmental Impact Study
2) Waverly Elementary School Petition/Letter

1) Please sign our Change.org petition: To Protect the Health, Safety and Welfare of Tuckahoe, Eastchester, Bronxville, Yonkers, Mt. Vernon, and the surrounding communities,  a Full Environmental Impact Study must be done, before any remediation or construction plan can be properly formulated.

Please Join us in requesting that the Village of Tuckahoe Planning Board rescind the Conditional Negative Declaration, and Approve a Full Environmental Impact Study of Marbledale Road Quarry Dump and the Marriott Springhill Suites project.

Please sign the petition at: www.MarbledaleRoad.org
or
by clicking on this link:
https://www.change.org/p/marbledale-road-environmental-coalition-tuckahoetoxic-dump-approve-a-full-environmental-impactstudy-b4-digging-for-marriott-hotel?recruiter=558435578&utm_source=petitions_show_components_action_panel_wrapper&utm_medium=copylink

Thank you for Taking Action and Protecting your Community!

2) Waverly Elementary School Petition Letter to Local, County, and State Public Officials

Please Sign the Waverly Elementary School Petition Letter!
We are writing again to ask for more testing and safety measures be put in place.
www.waverly.webfored.com

VI) Write to Governor Cuomo,  the DEC Commissioner, and the Public Officials:

Please refer to the DEC Site Code: C360143 and The Marbledale Quarry Toxic Dump.

Please send letters by return receipt or email to:

1) Mayor Steve Ecklond, 65 Main St, Tuckahoe, NY 10707 (914) 961- 3100

2) Deputy Mayor Tom Giordano, 65 Main St, Tuckahoe, NY 10707 (914) 961- 3100

3) Trustee Antonio Leo, 65 Main St, Tuckahoe, NY 10707 (914) 961- 3100

4) Trustee Greg Luisi, 65 Main St, Tuckahoe, NY 10707 (914) 961- 3100

5) Trustee Steven Alfasi, 65 Main St, Tuckahoe, NY 10707 (914) 961- 3100

Please add a cover letter demanding action, and explaining that you are sending a copy of your letter to the Tuckahoe Mayor and Trustees to them:

6) The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo
Governor of New York State
NYS State Capitol Building
Albany, NY 12224  (518) 474-8390   Online form: https://www.governor.ny.gov/contact

When you call, leave a message for the Gov with the receptionist.

6a) The Secretary to the Governor, William Mulrow
Office of the Secretary to the Governor:  State Capitol, Albany, NY 12224
518-474-4246
(of note, Secretary Mulrow lives in Bronxville, please add this information in your letters to him)

7) The Honorable Basil Seggos, Acting Commissioner
NYSDEC, 625 Broadway, Albany, NY 12233-1011
(518) 402-8545

Do not let them transfer you, insist on speaking to someone who will give a message to the Commissioner.

8) The Honorable Howard Zucker, Commissioner
NYSDOH, Corning Tower, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12237
518-474-2011

You can email, or mail,  the Senator Latimer and Assemblywoman Paulin copies of your letter to Mayor Ecklond for their records:

9) Senator George Latimer, 222 Grace Church Street Suite 300 Port Chester, NY 10573

            email: Latimer@nysenate.gov

10) Assembly Woman Amy Paulin, 700 White Plains Rd. Suite 252, Scarsdale, NY 10583

            email: Paulina@assembly.state.ny.us

For Residents of Bronxville, Eastchester, Mt. Vernon and Yonkers, please add a cover letter demanding action, and explaining that you are sending a copy of your letter to the Tuckahoe Mayor and Trustees to them:

11)  Your Mayor, Your Town Supervisor, Your County Legislator.

Joint Letter from Assemblywoman Amy Paulin and Senator George Latimer to the NYDEC and NYDOH Commissioners, May 2, 2016

Legal Assessment and Comments of the RAWP by David Gordon, Esq.

Assessment of the Remedial Action Work Plan, April 25, 2016:
Click here for Independent Expert Environmental Assessment of the proposed R.A.W.P.

Independent Hydrogeological Assesments and Comments on the Remedial Action Work Plan, April 25, 2016

Independent Hydrogeological Comments and Assessments September 15, 2015 and October 20, 2015

<--- Click here for Site Plan Marbledale Road Toxic Quarry Dump: the center, outlined in black, is the Brownfield Site; The Northern and Southern portions are now in the Super Fund under the "P" designation of the Inactive Hazardous Waste Site Program. The blue represents the area where there was water before the quarry pits will filled with industrial and pharmaceutical waste and contaminants.

<--- Click here for Bronxville to Scarsdale Geologic Cross Section, indicates groundwater interaction with Toxic Quarry Waste Pits. The groundwater runs South - South/West from Scarsdale, through Eastchester, through Tuckahoe, through the Toxic Quarry Waste Pits, and continues through Bronxville and the Bronx River. The groundwater found on the Toxic Quarry Dump site is highly contaminated.

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Definitions and Descriptions:

Volunteer: The D.E.C. Brownfield terminology for the project Developer.  According the the D.E.C. Brownfield program, the Developer of the site is "Volunteering" to participate in the Brownfield program.

Positive Declaration:  The project, and the site,  will have an adverse impact on the community.  i.e. The site is contaminated, and will have an impact on the community.  Positive like a positive scientific result when testing for contaminants.  A Positive Declaration means that a Full Environmental Impact Study of the project, and the site, should be done.

Negative Declaration: The project, and the site, will not have an adverse impact on the community.  i.e. The site is not contaminated, and therefore will not have an impact on the community.  Negative like a negative scientific result when nothing is found.

Full Environmental Impact Study (FEIS):  The Study that many local governments do to assess the impacts of a project, and a contaminated site, on the local communities.

Conditional Negative Declaration (CND):  The project, and the site, are Conditionally O.K. , and will have no adverse impact on the community when some conditions are met.   In lieu of doing a Full Environmental Impact study, the Village of Tuckahoe has chosen to do a C.N.D.

Independent and Independent Expert:  The expert hired by members of the local community.   The independent expert is Independent of the Developer (Volunteer), and Independent of the local government. Please continue to take action!

Hazardous Chemicals in Ground Water, Soil, and Soil Vapor: The hazardous chemicals found during testing of the Brownfield site are alarming. The Quarry Dump clearly demands comprehensive testing to formulate a remediation plan.  Groundwater, soil, and soil vapor were found to be contaminated with substances that are toxic and/or carcinogenic. These include, among others:

• perchloroethylene (“perc”; carcinogenic, more than 300x groundwater quality standard)
• trichloroethylene (“TCE”; carcinogenic, almost 10x groundwater standard)
• benzene (carcinogenic, 30x soil cleanup objective)
• zinc (50x soil cleanup objective)
• mercury (more than 20x groundwater standard),
• lead (almost 100x soil cleanup objective and more than 1,000x groundwater standard)
• chromium (more than 20x groundwater standard)
• polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as:

      o    benz(a)anthracene (carcinogenic, more than 9,000x groundwater standard),
      o    benzo(b)fluoranthene (carcinogenic, more than 10,000x groundwater standard)

• phenol (100x groundwater standard)
• PCBs (more than 10x soil cleanup objective)

SITUATION OVERVIEW: April 20, 2016 Overview of the Quarry Dump Toxic Waste Site on Marbledale Road, Tuckahoe

For a list of companies and municipalities who dumped in the Marbledale Road Former Quarry Landfill,
please click here to see a November, 2015 letter from long-time Tuckahoe resident Joseph Marinello, Jr.

Toxics Report: Independent Environmental Assessment of Contaminants in the Former Marble Quarry Landfill, 109 Marbledale Road, Tuckahoe, NY 2/29/2016

Independent Hydro-geological Evaluation of the Ground Water Flow through the Former Marble Quarry Landfill, 109 Marbledale Road, Tuckahoe, NY 3/01/2016

Bronxville Presentation by independent experts on video:
The heavily contaminated Tuckahoe Former Marble Quarry Landfill, and the ground water flow through Bronxville, N.Y.
3/01/2016

Video 1 of 3: Tuckahoe Toxic Quarry Bronxville Ground Water (00:37)

Video 2 of 3: Tuckahoe Toxic Quarry Bronxville Ground Water (41:48)

Video 3 of 3: Tuckahoe Toxic Quarry Bronxville Ground Water (41:00)