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The Meeker Avenue Plume is a section of the Greenpoint/East Williamsburg neighborhoods of Brooklyn that has been designated as a Superfund site. It was added to the Superfund National Priority List in March 2022.

History
The Greenpoint area of Brooklyn has historically been an industrial area, and the zone designated as the Meeker Avenue Plume has a long history of manufacturing.

Superfund Designation
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation discovered contamination in the soil in the mid-2000s, during their investigation of the Greenpoint oil spill. The State identified six sources of the environmental contamination, including two former dry cleaning businesses, two former metal foundries, a steel drum recycler, and a manufacturer. These six sources are all listed by the state as Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites, with a designation that classifies them as requiring action.

Fifteen years of investigation by the state culminated in federal Superfund designation in March 2022.

Investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency included groundwater sampling in the summer of 2023 from over 300 sites in the neighborhood.