[CPEO-BIF] BoRit asbestos piles, Ambler, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Citizen of the Week - Sharon McCormick

By Terri Alderfer
Ambler Gazette (PA)
July 22, 2008

Ambler resident Sharon McCormick has been fighting for more than three 
years to get the BoRit asbestos site on the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency's National Priority List.

McCormick, 44, became involved with the issue in 2004, when she and 
other citizens circulated a petition and received 1,446 signatures to 
help stop the construction of a 17-story high-rise condominium on the 
38-acre site, which runs along Maple Street just west of Butler Pike in 
Ambler.

When McCormick found out that this site was a potential health hazard to 
the community, she and a group of citizens spent time researching the 
issue. McCormick said she co-founded the Citizens Advisory Group to the 
EPA in January 2007 "as a voice for the citizens" of the three 
communities directly affected by the site: Ambler, Upper Dublin Township 
and Whitpain Township.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19865844&BRD=1306&PAG=461&dept_id=562852&rfi=6

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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