Historical Dry Cleaners: How Can These Things Even Be An Issue?

It hadn’t been a dry cleaners for over 40 years. The research was clear though – City Directory records from as early as 1930 through 1971 indicated that it had been there – and it was enough information to call it a ‘recognized environmental condition’. That is, the presence of a dry cleaners was enough…

December 2014. Funkhouser interview comments included in local television report.

  KDEP’s Hazardous Waste Management Fund is the only funding mechanism available to clean up contaminated sites that have no viable responsible party. Several of these sites include former dry cleaning operations and abandoned industrial properties whose former owners may have died or gone bankrupt. Funding for the HWMF, which was created in 1980, is…