Beacon – Two state agencies have determined the Long Dock Beacon site does not pose a significant threat to human health and the environment.

The determination by the state departments of Environmental Conservation and Health comes as a draft remedial work plan for cleanup of contamination on the almost nine acre former industrial site is about to be available for public comment.

The property, on a peninsula on the eastern shore of the Hudson River, once housed Beacon Salvage and Garret Storm, and was used over time as a salvage/scrap yard and as an oil storage facility.

Soil and groundwater have been found to be tainted with a host of contaminants.

The Scenic Hudson Land Trust, Inc. and Foss Group Beacon, LLC have plans to develop a hotel and recreational facilities on the property once it is cleaned up.

A draft remedial work plan has excavation and off-site disposal of soils and fill material identified as being contaminated; implementation of a chemical oxidation treatment program to reduce petroleum contamination; installation of a vapor barrier; and installation of a one foot thick soil cover over the entire site.

According to the February DEC fact sheet for the project, the determination of no significant environmental threat “reflects the fact that under current and post-remediation conditions there are no current, nor will there be any potential for future, complete exposure pathways from contaminants to human or ecological receptors.”