[CPEO-BIF] Homes planned for TCE site in Lower Providence Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lower Providence Board of Supervisors changes zoning for townhouses and homes


By Carl Rotenberg
Times Herald (Montgomery County, PA)
March 19, 2015

LOWER PROVIDENCE - The board of supervisors held a public hearing Thursday over whether to allow single-family homes and townhouses on two parcels of land zoned industrial and professional business office and unanimously approved the two zoning changes.

The board also held a public hearing to permit townhouses in the I-industrial district with a conditional use hearing and unanimously approved that change.

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“It is an Act II site. There is groundwater contamination on the site. There are several monitoring wells on the site. We are very well-aware about this,” said Christopher Canavan, the senior vice president of W.B. Homes. “We have submitted a cleanup plan to the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).”

The soil contamination from trichloroethylene (TCE) is limited to one area behind a rear parking lot, he said. Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a nonflammable, colorless liquid with a somewhat sweet odor and a sweet, burning taste. It is used mainly as a solvent and TCE contamination was discovered in the ground owned by Superior Tube.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesherald.com/general-news/20150319/lower-providence-board-of-supervisors-changes-zoning-for-townhouses-and-homes

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
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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