New York State Environmental Remediation Site Registry

Records of sites being remediated under New York State DEC programs, including State Superfund and Brownfield Cleanup. The database includes sites from the Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites and the Registry of Institutional and Engineering Controls. It is maintained by data.ny.gov and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic distribution of remediation sites using Latitude and Longitude columns.
• Track project completion timelines and program types via Project Completion Date and Program Type fields.
• Identify responsible parties for contamination using Owner Name and Operator Name columns.
• Associate specific contaminants with site locations using the Contaminants column.
• Map institutional controls for land use planning using Control Type and Control Code.

Strengths

• Includes data from two official state registries: Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites and Institutional/Engineering Controls.
• Provides precise geolocation for sites via Latitude, Longitude, and Georeference columns.
• Contains detailed administrative and programmatic data across over 25 columns.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count prevents assessment of dataset scale.
• Geographic scope is limited exclusively to New York State.
• Sample data is unavailable for previewing data quality and completeness.

Provenance

Source

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) via data.ny.gov.

Collection Method

Aggregated from DEC's remedial program databases and official state registries.

Freshness

Last updated April 2026.

Geography

New York State, United States.