This Site was a former auto junk yard that contained thousands of junked motor vehicles, trucks, and boats. The Site was cleared of the vehicle hulks in the 2010s, but there remains more than 100 drums of used oil, paint wastes and unknown chemicals. This property is owned by an individual who also owns the Dudka Garage Superfund removal Site in nearby Amsterdam, NY. There's a wetlands on the property and streams that connect to the Mohawk River, a navigable waterway of the U.S. and part of the Erie Barge Canal system. The Bunn Creek runs through the Site and flows through the City of Amsterdam and thence to the Mohawk River. The entire property is approximately 100 acres with a few structures, but is predominantly open, vacant land. In addition to the former junkyard property, there are 25 drums of similar wastes behind the house of the RP which is contiguous with the former junkyard.
The Site was referred to EPA for a Superfund removal action on October 4, 2016 by the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation. On October 18, 2016 the RP granted EPA written access to the property to perform a removal action.
On December 14, 2016 verbal authorization and funding for an emergency removal action was granted and removal activities began on January 18, 2017.
