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E-Mail Page Printer Safe US: Deal Reached to Clean Toxic Bronx Site by Timothy Williams, The New York Times March 4th, 2006 For more than 40 years, Hexagon Laboratories made pharmaceuticals on a quiet stretch of Peartree Avenue not far from Co-op City in the Bronx.

When the company abandoned the site in 1989, it left behind thousands of gallons of toxic waste.After years of community agitation and the discovery that the lot was littered with carcinogens, explosives and poisons like cyanide, the state attorney general's office announced last week that it had reached a settlement with companies involved in Hexagon's business or its chemical operations at the site: they will pay about two-thirds of the $9 million cleanup cost."Even urban toxic waste sites are usually less contaminated than this site, where numerous hazardous chemicals were spilled during chemical manufacturing processes," said Eugene J.

Leff, an assistant attorney general with the Environmental Protection Bureau.Unknown to its neighbors, Mr.

Leff said, Hexagon failed to properly dispose of more than 600 drums and 27 tanks of potentially lethal chemicals after it declared bankruptcy in 1989.

Some of the underground tanks deteriorated, allowing poisons to leach into the groundwater.The authorities investigated the lot, in Eastchester, only after people in homes a...