MOREAU -- Toxic PCBs beneath a paved parking lot at the Tee-Bird Country Club have not spread, the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced last week.
Tests at the club on Reservoir Road found that the lot, which was paved in the mid-1980s to contain the PCBs, remains effective in containing the pollution.
A little less than an acre of the 145-acre, 18-hole golf course's parking area is classified as a state Superfund pollution site due to as much as 27,500 gallons of PCB oil sprayed on what was a gravel parking lot in the 1970s to control dust.
Soil samples taken from beneath the paved lot -- as well as from ground water, nearby land, a pond and a stream -- found that nearly all PCBs remained confined beneath the paved lot, according to DEC.
PCBs were, however, detected in a single sample of pond water at "very low concentrations," the agency reported. Similar findings that PCBs were not spreading resulted after DEC checked the site in 1984, 1989 and 1990.
Copies of the DEC report are available at the Region 5 DEC office in Warrensburg; the Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen St., Glens Falls; and the Moreau Town Office Building, 61 Hudson St., South Glens Falls.
DEC will prepare a draft remedial action plan outlining possible next steps for dealing with the PCBs.
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