[CPEO-BIF] East Rockhill Township, Pennsylvania TCE plume

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State plans public water for polluted homes
Proposal would extend service in East Rockhill.

By Patrick Lester
Allentown Morning Call (PA)
July 25, 2008

Nearly five dozen East Rockhill Township homes would be connected to 
public water service as part of the state's plan to address decades-long 
water contamination caused by a probable cancer-causing chemical.

The state Department of Environmental Protection has proposed an 
estimated $440,000 public water line extension to properties near 1803 
N. Fifth St., site of a former metal machining and fabrication company 
blamed in the 1980s for illegally discharging trichloroethylene, or TCE, 
into groundwater at its property.

The DEP is accepting written comments on the proposal through October 
and has scheduled a Sept. 15 public hearing to field opinions from 
residents.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b3_2water.6516467jul25,0,5196858.story

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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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