United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA 500-F-00-020
April 2000
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
<&EPA Brownfields Supplemental
Assistance
Glen Cove, NY
Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5105)
Quick Reference Fact Sheet
EPA's Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower states, communities, and other
stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and
sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield is a site, or portion thereof, that has actual or perceived contamination and
an active potential for redevelopment or reuse. EPA is funding: assessment demonstration pilot programs (each funded
up to $200,000 over two years), to assess brownfields sites and to test cleanup and redevelopment models; job training
pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years), to provide training for residents of communities affected
by brownfields to facilitate cleanup of brownfields sites and prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental
field; and, cleanup revolving loan fund programs (each funded up to $500,000 over five years) to capitalize loan funds
to make loans for the environmental cleanup of brownfields. These pilot programs are intended to provide EPA, states,
tribes, municipalities, and communities with useful information and strategies as they continue to seek new methods
to promote a unified approach to site assessment, environmental cleanup, and redevelopment.
BACKGROUND
EPA awarded the City of Glen Cove supplemental
assistance for its Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilot. Glen Cove is located on the
north shore of Long Island, adjacent to Hempstead
Harbor and the Long Island Sound. The Glen Cove
Creek area is home to a variety of industries, including
marinas, recreation, light manufacturing, and public
services, but also contains more than 70 acres of
vacant land. The City has ten miles of waterfront, of
which nearly nine miles have remained historically
pristine. The remaining 1.1 mile federal navigation
channel in the Glen Cove Creek area has adversely
affected the economy and tax base of the City.
Contaminants include radioactive wastes, methane,
and organic solvents.
The New York Department of State's Long Island
Sound Coastal Management Program (CMP)
designated Glen Cove as one of three areas along the
entire 314 mile Long Island Sound coastline, where
concentrated waterfront redevelopment should occur.
The City's waterfrontRevitalizationPlan will redevelop
214 acres of environmentally challenged and
underutilized properties in the WaterfrontDistrict. Of
these 214 acres, 146 are brownfields, the remainder
are state and federal Superfund sites.
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Glen Cove, New York
Date of Announcement:
March 2000
Amount: $100,000
Greenspace: $50,000
Profile: This Pilot continues
to target the Glen Cove Creek
area with assessments for the
Doxey and Gladsky properties
and greenspace preparation
work for the "dog-leg" area at
the head of Glen Cove Creek
and Pratt Park.
Contacts:
City of Glen Cove
(516) 676-1121 ext. 103
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA - Region 2
(212)637-4314
Visit the EPA Region 2 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/r02earth/superfnd/brownfld/bfmainpg.htm
Forfuttherinformation, including specific Pilot contacts,
additional Pilotinformation, brownfields newsandevents,and publications
and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
http:/Miww.epa.gov/brownfields/
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This Pilot will specifically assess two properties in this
area: the Doxey and Gladsky properties. The Doxey
property has been used as a salvage operation and
waste transfer station. Early assessments have
found above ground oil storage tanks, 25 drums with
unidentified contents, areas of stained soils, several
reported spills and debris. The Gladsky property is a
two-acre parcel used as a marine salvage yard and
transfer station. Early assessments of this property
found asbestos buried on site, areas of chemical
storage, and remnants of prior use of the property as
a concrete and sand and gravel facility. Further
assessments are needed to determine cleanup
procedures for the continuation of the Revitalization
Plan for this area of the City.
OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES
Glen Cove's Revitalization Plan seeks to maintain
clean, water-compatible commercial and industrial
uses, preventing the creation of additional brownfields
in the area. The Pilot will use supplemental assistance
for environmental assessment of brownfieldproperties
in the Waterfront Revitalization area around Glen
Cove. The city hopes to expand the current activities
of its RevitalizationPlanto conduct investigations and
assessments at additional properties in the Waterfront
Revitalization area.
The Pilot will use the greenspace funding to target
waterfront properties that are included in the city's
Waterfront Revitalization Plan, which seeks to create
and/orrestore city-owned parks and open space. The
funds will develop additional open space within specific
areas of the Waterfront District such as the dogleg
area at the head of Glen Cove Creek and Pratt Park,
which includes Mill Pond. Renovation of these areas
would form a green "gateway" to the Waterfront
District while connecting this area to the adjacent
downtown business district.
To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:
• Select the sites for Phase I assessments;
• Continue phase 1,11, and IE investigations of the
selected properties;
• Conduct Phase I, n, and IE investigations of the
selected properties; and
• Continue to facilitate community outreach through
meetings of both the Brownfields Citizen Advisory
Committee (BCAC) and the newly created
Waterfront Advisory Committee.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
Brownfields Supplemental Assistance
April 2000
Glen Cove, New York
EPA 500-F-00-020
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