[CPEO-BIF] Howe's Leather propert, Curwensville, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Meeting held for former Howe's Leather property remediation

By Dianne Byers 
Clearfield Progress (PA)
March 26, 2021
 
A public meeting was held Thursday to discuss plans for remediating the former Howe’s Leather property in Curwensville. The property is considered a brownfield — meaning its redevelopment or reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential of a hazardous substances, pollutants and contaminants.

Several people attended the meeting held at the conference room of the Clearfield County Economic Development Corp, both virtually and in person, to hear details for work on the site’s soil, water and former sludge lagoon.

The property formerly housed a tannery from 1900 until 2004. The site is contaminated with heavy metals co-mingled with petroleum products from two underground storage tanks, removed in 1993 according to information provided at the meeting. It is currently vacant.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theprogressnews.com/progress_news/meeting-held-for-former-howes-leather-property-remediation/article_87128c9b-6fba-517c-be53-3b20c7c75eca.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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