Toxics Targeting has created this Web site for anyone purchasing a home or property in Nassau, Suffolk or Queens Counties. Real estate attorneys, appraisers and environmental consultants also may find Toxics Targeting's information useful.

Thousands of leaking gasoline and fuel oil tanks, toxic dumps and hazardous waste sites in New York can reduce property values or impose clean up liability on unsuspecting homebuyers. Since toxic sites are often impossible to detect with the naked eye, Toxics Targeting specializes in mapping and profiling hidden hazards on or near properties that are being purchased.

Toxics Targeting, an independent firm, has prepared nearly 300 community toxic site maps for Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Counties. Access to the maps is provided as a resource for visitors to newsday.com, which does not endorse them or benefit from premium services offered by Toxics Targeting.

About the Maps and How to View Them

Each map illustrates the locations of eight categories of toxic sites that can pose serious environmental or health risks. To view the toxic sites in a specific community, click on the county your are interested in at the top of the page. Please review the limitations to Toxics Targeting's maps before clicking on the community toxic map link.

Search for toxic sites on or around the address you wish to check by referring to the street grid and map symbols. Download Acrobat Reader® without charge to magnify each map up to 800%.

Please note that Toxics Targeting's maps do not illustrate all existing toxic sites, including many sites that cannot be located due to incomplete addresses.