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Dye Remediation (Buffalo Color)

  • Buffalo, New York
  • Environmental Remediation, Excavation, Hazardous Material Handling, Demolition, Site Restoration/Redevelopment, Historic Preservation

Originally founded as the Schoellkopf Aniline and Dye Company in 1879, the plant produced dyes and organic chemicals based primarily on aniline and various aniline derivatives. The company merged to form Allied Chemical Corporation in 1920 and consequently sold to Buffalo Color Corporation from 1977 until operations ceased in 2003. The plant produced primarily Indigo dye alkyl anilines, anhydrides and dye intermediates. The site occupies approximately 47 acres near and adjacent to the Buffalo River

Health & Environmental Risks

BTEX, arsenic, mercury, cholorbenzene, and aniline with potential pathway for impacted groundwater migration toward the Buffalo River.

Structural considerations included numerous vacant former manufacturing buildings, tank farms and support infrastructure in poor condition and containing hazardous substances.

Our Solution

Remediation

Asbestos abatement and structural demolition

Source excavations of contaminated soil and installation of a protective cover system

Abandonment/plugging/rehabilitation of underground sewer system

Installation of a non-permeable barrier wall

Bioremediation of Chlorobenzene plumes

Improvements to and expansion of on-site water treatment system

Redevelopment

Transformation of an abandoned, blighted industrial property into a site ready for commercial/light industrial use with environmentally sustainable facilities that will support jobs, be a catalyst for redevelopment in the Elk Street Corridor and promote the economic stability of the region.

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