2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:34:45 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Copley Square Plaza , Copley, Ohio
 
EPA delays connecting Copley homes to Akron water

By Bob Downing
Akron Beacon Journal (OH)
April 3, 2010

COPLEY TWP.: Eugene and Rita Smith are angry and frustrated that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency won't provide an alternative water source to Copley Township residents with contaminated wells near a Superfund site until 2011.

...

The couple and neighbors got letters last week from the U.S. EPA that said about 30 households won't be hooked up to Akron water in 2010 as had been planned.

The EPA needs to conduct additional air and water tests and is seeking homeowners' permission to drill holes in yards and basements to determine the extent of the contamination from the Copley Square Plaza on Copley Road (state Route 162) at Jacoby Road, said agency spokesman Sam Chummar in Chicago.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ohio.com/news/89842292.html

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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
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