[CPEO-BIF] "Geologist warns New Hanover [PA] quarry monitoring won’t be enough"

[Lenny Siegel]

Geologist warns New Hanover quarry monitoring won't be enough

By Evan Brandt
Pottstown Mercury (PA)
July 26, 2015


NEW HANOVER - The state will require Gibraltar Rock to sample and  
test for chemical contaminants in the water drawn into the company’s  
proposed quarry off Route 73.

In an April 21 letter to the company, the Pennsylvania Department of  
Environmental Protection wrote that both the surface water and the  
groundwater collected during quarry operations "shall be tested for  
VOCs."

VOCs stands for "volatile organic compounds" and is part of an  
alphabet soup of pollutants that includes vinyl chloride;  
trichloroethylene or TCE; methyl tertiary butyl ether or MTBE; 1,4  
dioxane methyl ethyl ketone or MEK and 1,2-dichloroethene or DCE.

Those are the primary pollutants found in well samples, and in some  
neighboring residential wells, believed to have leached off the  
former Good’s Oil site on Layfield Road, which is adjacent to land  
Gibraltar Rock wishes to quarry.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pottsmerc.com/general-news/20150726/geologist-warns-new- 
hanover-quarry-monitoring-wont-be-enough

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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 at cpeo.org>
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