li tungsten corp.

GARVIES POINT RD.

The Li Tungsten Superfund Site is comprised of the former Li Tungsten facility, the Captain’s Cove property where some of the facility’s wastes were disposed of, and Glen Cove Creek where contaminated slag from facility operations came to be located. The former facility is located at 63 Herbhill Road in the City of Glen Cove. The property is 26 acres and consists of three separate parcels. The main operations were conducted on the parcel bordered by Glen Cove Creek to the south and Herbhill Road to the north and a second parcel to the west of Dickson Lane. The remaining parcel is bordered by Herbhill Road on the south and Dickson Lane on the west. The facility was owned from the 1940's to approximately 1984 by the Wah Chang Smelting and Refining Company and operated by a succession of entities, including Teledyne Inc. and the Li Tungsten Corp. Operations generally involved the processing of ore and scrap tungsten concentrates to metal tungsten powder and tungsten carbide powder, although other specialty metal products were also produced. The property was acquired by Glen Cove Development Corporation (GCDC) in 1984 and leased to the Li Tungsten Corporation, which declared bankruptcy in 1985. The 23-acre Captain’s Cove property is bounded by Hempstead Harbor to the west, Garvies Point Preserve to the north, the Glen Cove Anglers’ Club to the east, and Glen Cove Creek to the south. A four-acre wetland makes up a portion of the property’s southern boundary with the Creek. The property had been used as a dumpsite for a variety of wastes, including the disposal of spent ore residuals by the operators of the former Li Tungsten facility. Glen Cove Creek is located in the City of Glen Cove on the north shore of Long Island. The creek has been channelized to serve as a 1.0 mile federal navigation channel and is maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers, extending from Hempstead Harbor easterly to the head of navigation at Charles Street near the municipal center of Glen Cove. During routine maintenance dredging by the Army Corps in 2001, the discovery that radioactive materials were present in Glen Cove Creek caused the dredging program to be indefinitely suspended and led to the inclusion of the creek as part of the Li Tungsten Superfund Site. The City of Glen Cove, which has undertaken an ambitious waterfront revitalization effort along Glen Cove Creek, received a Brownfields pilot grant from EPA in 1997 and the following year was designated a Brownfields Showcase Community by EPA, which resulted in additional financial and technical assistance from several federal agencies for the waterfront revitalization effort, including the Army Corps of Engineers. The City’s Industrial Development Agency (IDA) has also purchased the Li Tungsten and Captain's Cove properties to facilitate the ongoing revitalization efforts. The City signed a land development agreement in 2003 with Glen Isle Developers to develop the properties along the Creek that are owned by the IDA. Site Responsibility: This Site is presently being addressed through Federal and potentially responsible party actions

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