2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 12 Jan 2006 23:15:38 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Armorcast building, Berks County, Pennsylvania
 
[Please excuse the duplicate posting.]

County's redevelopment rooted in brownfields


By Andrew McCue Southern Berks News (PA) January 12, 2006


In Berks County, where it was once common to grind up old car battery cases and use them for driveways and parking lots, it shouldn't come as a surprise that a lot of time, effort and money are going into cleaning up messes left by past generations.


The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania refers to such messes as "brownfields." Whether a property is contaminated by pollutants like chemical solvents, oil or lead, drinking-water supplies and air can suffer.

One such brownfield, the old Armorcast building in Birdsboro, is currently being cleaned up by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

...

The expansive 750,000-square-foot main building, with ceilings almost 80 feet overhead, once held a military tank factory that operated during World War II and the Korean War. Afterwards Birdsboro Steel owned it for a long period of time. As recently as four years ago, part of the site was used by Universal Concrete of Stowe, according to Willems.
Art's Auto Salvage now occupies much of the property, which straddles the borough line - 75 percent falls in Birdsboro and 25 percent falls in Union Township.
...


For the entire article, see
http://www.berksmontnews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15917430&BRD=2694&PAG=461&dept_id=552988&rfi=6


-- Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military

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