2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 25 May 2007 21:50:43 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Bishop Tube site, Chester County, Pennsylvania
 
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
Department of Environmental Protection

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 25, 2007


DEP SECRETARY SAYS VITAL ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP PROGRAM NEEDS DEDICATED FUNDING TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH, REVITALIZE COMMUNITIES

Chester County Site Shows Importance of Hazardous Sites Cleanup Fund

MALVERN -- During a visit to the former Bishop Tube site in Chester County, Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty talked about the importance of a program that helps the state respond to environmental emergencies, clean contaminated sites, protect the public's health and promote economic growth.

...

Additionally, the site's new owner - Constitution Drive Partners LP - has entered into an unprecedented cost sharing partnership with DEP whereby Constitution addresses the contaminated soil and DEP addresses the contaminated, shallow groundwater. Soil remediation is expected to take 2-3 years to complete, but groundwater remediation will take much longer.


...

For the entire press release, see
http://www.ahs.dep.state.pa.us/newsreleases/default.asp?ID=4512&varQueryType=Detail

--


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>
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