POUGHKEEPSIE – The state Department of Environmental Conservation wants public comment on its proposed remedy to address contamination at the former A.C. Dutton Lumber Yard site at 2 Hoffman Street in the City and Town of Poughkeepsie.

The site, which has been used for a number of industrial operations, most recently as a pressure treated lumber production facility, is known to have extensive areas contaminated with arsenic, chromium and petroleum.

Once remediated, future development of the site is mixed residential and commercial so the DEC says the more stringent soil cleanup objectives have been selected.

Among the cleanup plans are to remove the most significantly impacted materials and soil from the site and the entire site will be covered with clean soil or other acceptable cover system.

Other remediation work would include removal of storage tanks, piping and remaining treatment process fluids; demolition of site buildings; removal of asphalt surfaces; and stabilization of the shoreline to prevent erosion of site soils and cover system.

The Brownfield Cleanup Program application for this project was submitted in March 2005. A remedial investigation work plan was submitted in October 2005 and the investigation began in the winter of 2005-2006.

A supplemental investigation work plan was submitted in February 2008 and approved in March 2008. The report was finalized in August 2008.