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"People always dreamed about expanding
that park, and this is monumental."
-Councilman Joe Miiscarella
"In 14 years, we've gone from a mess to a
great location and a new supermarket."
- Town Supervisor John Venditto
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Aerial view showing site proximity to Allen
Park (left) and new on-site Stop & Shop
(right), (source: Google Earth)
For more information, please contact
Melissa Friedland at
friedland.melissa@epa.gov or
(703) 603-8864; or
Frank Avvisato at avvisato.frank@epa.gov
or(703)603-8949.
Stop & Shop supermarket, (source: EPA)
Once a contaminated property with a history of aircraft part
manufacturing and metal plating, the Liberty Industrial Finishing
Superfund site (the Site) in the Village of Farmingdale, Town of
Oyster Bay, New York, is now a community asset. Thanks to proactive
EPA, local government, stakeholder and community collaboration, the
Site now houses a large supermarket and construction efforts to extend
a community park onto site land are underway.
Starting in the late 1930s, a variety of industrial activities, including
parts manufacturing and metals plating, operated from the Site. Due to
soil and ground water contamination resulting from these former
practices, EPA placed the Site on the National Priorities List (NPL) in
1986. Remedial actions at the Site included soil excavation and
removal and ground water treatment to remove contamination.
EPA selected industrial cleanup standards for the Site because it was
zoned for industrial use and had been historically used for industry.
However, a late-1990s reuse study roused significant local interest in
recreational reuse potential at the Site. The western portion of the Site
is located adjacent to the Ellsworth Allen Park and provided a
convenient area for park expansion. As a result of the Town's decision
to reuse the property for recreational purposes, EPA documented what
additional soil remediation the Town would need to perform support
recreational reuse at the Site in the 2003 Record of Decision for the
Site. The Town requested the status of Bona Fide Prospective
Purchaser for the western 14 acres of the site, negotiated a Prospective
Purchaser Agreement (PPA) and agreed to a payment plan to
compensate stakeholders for the cost difference in remediation
standards. In July 2011, the Town of Oyster Bay passed a resolution to
rezone the property from industrial to recreational in anticipation of
the new reuse. Construction on the park has begun and the Town
continues to work with EPA to implement institutional controls and
access agreements for the Site.
hi addition to recreational reuse efforts on the western portion of the
Site, the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company, LLC recognized the
potential of the eastern section of the Site, constructing a new
supermarket. In anticipation of this beneficial reuse, site property
owners applied for a "special use permit" and began work with EPA
on a PPA to address Superfund liability concerns. The 2005 PPA
helped propel plans for the construction of an 80,000 square feet
supermarket on 9 acres of site property. Construction on the Super
Stop & Shop began September 2009 and the store opened to the public
in May 2010. EPA continues to work with site and store owners, the
local government and the community to maintain site protectiveness
and to return the site to beneficial reuse.
February 2012

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