A long standing pillar of Watertown industry is reportedly on the upswing again. NY Air Brake has expanded its workforce due to a surge in the call for rail cars which used the company's product.
In my years as a neighbor of the firm, I have seen many changes but am pleased the firm has continued to be a source of innovation in its industry and continues to provide jobs for many families.
The Air Brake, along with Knowlton Technogies are two old line plants in Watertown that continue to do well. Congratulations to the employees who make it happen.
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Unfortunately all that the Air Brake has left for me is bad air and water.
I'd like to know if you think the issue of soil vapor testing should be revisited.
Was there any testing done at the old Cloverdale site before Starwood Apts were built? There's all that new housing being built between Division and the plaza there too, do you know if there has been any testing done there?
One thing is certain, remediation was done at the landfill and at Kelsey Creek but absolutely nothing was done in the area of the creek that runs behind Division.
Sad
I wish Mayor Graham were more concerned about the deadly toxins in the soil that have eminated from the Airbrake for decades. Soil vapor intrusion tests have found very dangerous levels of toxins present at two elementary schools (Starbuck & North), yet Mayor Graham seems unconcerned.
Yeah unfortunately the fact that the airbrake was one of the biggest employers in the city and the north country is all they ( state and local gov't ) need as an excuse for not answering why they did not clean up the land that is between plaza dr and mill/ leray st where they are building more housing using funding from the taxpayers that sit on contaminated land. The fact that they found it important to notify people back in 2007 with a small article in the times the day of the so called state sponsored town hall meeting of the vapor intrusion studies ( for what I would have thought were health related concerns ) but failed to tell the entire truth of what the potential effects were and related health issues make me wonder if the city and state are concerned about someone exposing the entire truth of the matter and if the northside is contaminated what that would mean to property values and the cities property tax income.
One can only say. Hmmmm
I think you're comparing apples to oranges. The Air Brake Co. that it is today is no reflection of what the company was some 20+ years ago.
The mayor was just high lighting a fact that this company today is prospering.
The chemical contamination aside this is good news.
"the chemical contamination aside this is good news". Yes good news to anybody not directly affected by the problem or not living in the north side of the city where they are being exposed to deadly toxins on a daily basis.
Oh here we go with the do gooder tree huggers!! A place gives us folks jobs and some peeple just wantta complane about oil spils or sumthin. Clean up maywould terace if ya wanna woory about sumthin!
7:56, if there were oil spills, they would bring more jobs to the area and help improve the local economy. Heck, they could even be called "Green" jobs by our gooberment (cause they consider driving a bus to be one, too).
Anything to bring higher paying jobs here to the North Country. Lord knows we could use another greasy fast food chain to help improve the quality of life, too.
I think all y'all are crazy. Wit all of us military on dis side of town ain't no way this true. N if it is y'all peeps in Watertown gonna have some explainin to do to Fort Drum for us folks livin in yo dump!
Well glad for those of you who got jobs or worked over at the air brake but don't call Peole tree huggers. It's a known fact that the air brake dumped hundreds of thousand gallons of toxins into the ground on
Their property from back around the time of the world wars up until the 70's or 80's - if you knew what each chemicals side effects were and you knew anything about how how they effect people years later after exposure and how it takes years to leach through the ground and never really goes away and you were mysteriously effected by illness that can be associated to a number of those chemicals and grew up playing inthe landfill runoff back in the 50's - 80's or even today at this point you would have a totally different feeling. And to think that they had to cleanup as far over as Bradley st and behind leray st but nothing was from leray st over to plaza drive where they then again dug a 60' + hole in what was a corn field that was growing ontop of the contaminated land and which was fed to cows which were used to make milk , beef for the entire north country. One can only imagine how far the possible contamination stretched. And to top it off the some big time real estate company gets millions of dollars in
Tax incentives and grants to put up housing yet companies like tyco that shut down and moved to china couldn't get tax breaks or incentives to keep people employed. Someday all this housing is going to be abandoned and the city is going to get stuck holding the bag. Our govt can spend billions of dollars cleaning up other countries problems and can't spend a dime cleaning up our own. I could go on
And on.
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