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The Broome County Environmental Management Council will be updating residents on work to revise its Comprehensive plan that had been adopted six years ago.

Planning is underway to remove potentially hazardous chemicals at a Binghamton site where an apartment complex is to be constructed.

Additional state funding has been announced to help clean up a polluted property in western Broome County. The Department of Environmental Conservation will provide about $59,000 for planned work at the parcel at 312 Maple Street. The chemical TCE was spilled at the one-acre site when it was being used for manufacturing circuit boards and for computer recycling...

A Broome County site that was used for years as a disposal area for IBM-Endicott waste chemicals could be decontaminated under a plan being reviewed by New York state officials. The IBM Gun Club burn pit is located on Robinson Hill Road in the town of Union, a few miles east of Big Blue's former North Street manufacturing complex in the village of Endicott...