[CPEO-BIF] Schmidt's Brewery (Northern Liberties, PA)

[lsiegel@cpeo.org]

Brownfield Blues

Northern Liberties residents demand Tower Investments share information
about cleaning up environmental contamination at the former Schmidt's
Brewery site. 

by Gwen Shaffer
Philadelphia Weekly (PA)
September 28-Octrober 4, 2005

When police arrived at the former Schmidt's Brewery site at Second and
Girard in Northern Liberties just after midnight on June 26, 2002, they
found contractor Moneer Farhat burying about 100 cubic yards of "sand
contaminated with PCBs" 6 feet underground, according to a police
report. 

Farhat, president of the now-defunct Philadelphia Building Group Inc.,
told officers he was covering the toxic soil at the construction site
"to make it safe" until he had a chance to "notify the state," the
police report states. 

An inspector from the Philadelphia Department of Licenses and
Inspections (L&I) visited the former brewery the following day. He
ordered a work stoppage, and slapped th
e owner of the property, Northern Liberties Development Inc., with seven
violations. 
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=10608

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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