CATSKILL – Controversial plans for a construction and demolition debris site here have been abandoned, with its proponents citing a poor economy.
“Peckham Industries is withdrawing from permitting consideration the project known as the Peckham Catskill Berm Project. The economic climate is not right at this time,” Jason Kappel, the company’s director of technical services said to the state Department of Environmental Conservation in a notice last week.
Peckham wanted to bring in construction and demolition debris from downstate via barges. The debris would be fashioned into 40-foot-high berms the company said would shield from view the site of a former cement plant near the river.
Up to 600,000 tons of debris such as concrete and brick were to be brought there over a period of three to four years.
The company had put in an application to the DEC in October.
The site had drawn opposition from residents of the Catskill area and from people living across the river in Columbia County who worried about their view shed.
A local organization, Keep it Greene, Peckham Action Group, was formed to highlight issues such as the site’s proximity to the Hudson River a few hundred yards away.
Opponents said they worried that leachate from the site would flow into the estuaries and the river.
“The Peckham berm project was in fact an unlined landfill for construction and demolition waste,” Dave Walker, a geologist and member of the Keep it Greene organization said in a news release.
Peckham officials could not be reached for comment.
But DEC confirmed the company's withdrawal letter.
In March, plans for another construction and debris site in Athens, about five miles north, were withdrawn. Athens Stevedoring and Environmental Development LLC had proposed a facility to store and process 8,400 tons of construction and debris material per week. After crushing, it would have been hauled away by truck from the waterfront site.
That too, had faced heavy opposition, made more so by the ongoing controversy over the S.A. Dunn construction debris site in Rensselaer 38 miles north.
Rensselaer residents have complained bitterly over the truck traffic, dust and odors from the landfill which used to be a gravel pit.
Peckham’s decision also comes just over a year after Wheelabrator Technologies withdrew its application to build an incinerator ash site near the Peckham site at an abandoned quarry.
The company had planned to truck ash from incinerators it owns in the Hudson Valley to the site. That also drew heavy local opposition regarding truck traffic and the site’s proximity to the river.
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