2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 4 Nov 2006 19:00:06 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Proposed velodrome, Lower Providence, Pennsylvania
 
Cleanup efforts at future velodrome site detailed

By CARL ROTENBERG
Norristown Times Herald (PA)
November 4, 2006

LOWER PROVIDENCE - The 14-acre site in the Valley Forge Corporate Center where entrepreneurs plan to build a proposed, $16.7 million indoor bicycle track and event center and a 150-room, multi-story hotel has a history of groundwater contamination.
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Commodore Business Machines ran a computer chip manufacturing facility at 950 Rittenhouse Road from 1970 to 1992. It became a federal EPA Superfund site after it was discovered waste solvents stored in two tanks leaked volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the groundwater, the soil and the bedrock under the manufacturing building, the EPA said.
Rockwell Automation, the successor company of Commodore, built a treatment and pump building in August 2000 to satisfy the EPA's "record of decision."


Trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethene found underground in the groundwater is currently being removed by pumping the water through a "TCE air stripper," said J.H. Russell Friday morning, the operations manager of Audubon Water Co. of Lower Providence.

The company also injected potassium permanganate into the ground to speed up the chemical oxidation of TCE in the soil, said April Flipse, a state DEP project officer.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17421086&BRD=1672&PAG=461&dept_id=33380&rfi=6

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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 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org


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