Daniel C. Walsh

Daniel C. Walsh is the former Director of the City office of the Superfund and Brownfield Cleanup Program for the State Department of Environmental Conservation. Walsh studied the geochemistry of New York City landfills as a doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the Rockland County native has spent his professional career studying and helping to resolve environmental problems in and around the City.

WA day not so far off. Walsh recalls reading Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 initiatives for cleaning up brownfield sites in New York City, and remembers how the Plan’s goals resonated with him. He had observed, first hand, the unique problems facing owners and developers of some of the 7,600 acres of contaminated land within the City who had tried to enter the State Brownfield Cleanup Program.Walsh believed the City had a major role to play in the remediation of its brownfields, but assumed that day was far off. That day came last June when Mayor Bloomberg named Walsh Director of the Office of Environmental Remediation (OER), an office created to expedite the cleanup of the City’s brownfields. Since then, Walsh and his team have been busy working on legislation that will soon be introduced at City Council to create a City brownfield cleanup program. (read more…)