"IBM Toxic Pool Defies Cleanup"

"A remedy for a concentrated pool of solvents directly under the manufacturing site where at least 1,500 people still work may take years to find."

"ENDICOTT, N.Y. – After 35 years, IBM Corp. contractors have stanched the flow of industrial solvents into a commercial and residential district in the heart of the village, but they have yet to find a solution for the source of the problem at the company's former flagship manufacturing plant.

Officials recently reported that efforts to intercept and remove the subterranean flow of hazardous chemicals coming from the industrial complex — now owned by Huron Real Estate Associates — have been successful. Consequently, health risks to a nearby neighborhood have been eliminated.

Yet they have no remedy for a concentrated pool of solvents directly under the manufacturing site, where at least 1,500 people still work. It may take years before a proven remedy is found, according to Alex Czuhanich, an engineering geologist with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, although the agency has no timetable for the project."

Tom Wilber reports for the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin April 5, 2015.