Curated trail · 7 places
Dry Cleaning & Chlorinated Solvents
Small businesses left lasting solvent-cleanup obligations across Western New York. Explore separate groundwater and vapor histories, from neighborhood storefronts to shopping centers. This is a thematic reading trail; it does not imply a shared plume or public access to the properties.
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Lockport · Niagara County
Peters Dry Cleaning
Follow a Lockport plume from source excavation to continuing groundwater management.
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Niagara Falls · Niagara County
Time 1-Hour Cleaners
See how building foundations, sewers and subsurface water complicate vapor controls.
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Buffalo · Erie County
Bestway Cleaners
A neighborhood dry cleaner operating since 1965 became the focus of a solvent, groundwater, and vapor investigation extending beyond its small Seneca Street parcel.
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Amherst · Erie County
Northtown Plaza / Former Dry Cleaner
Suburban shopping-center cleanup where a former dry cleaner released PCE and heating-oil tanks affected soil; excavation and vapor controls support continued commercial use.
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Medina · Orleans County
Starlite Dry Cleaners
A dry cleaner operated beside the Erie Canal for half a century before fire, demolition, and investigation revealed a concentrated chlorinated-solvent source in soil and groundwater.
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Jamestown · Chautauqua County
C&B Dry Cleaners
Compact former dry-cleaning property that illustrates how a small business could create a significant solvent cleanup problem. The site is managed separately from Jamestown's much larger industrial complexes.
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Jamestown · Chautauqua County
Anderson Cleaners
Former dry-cleaning property at 5 Hunt Road where chlorinated volatile organic compounds affected soil and groundwater. DEC's Class 2 record calls for source removal or treatment, plume treatment and continuing monitoring.
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