[CPEO-BIF] TCE from Westinghouse site, Vanport, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel]

Vanport water authority still dealing with consequences of industria contamination

By Jared Stonesifer
Beaver County Times (PA)
February 3, 2017

VANPORT TWP. -- A battle is brewing among several entities over financial responsibility for water treatment, and the township municipal authority -- for the time being -- is stuck in the middle footing the bill.

That bill -- estimated by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to be $5,500 a month -- pays for two “air stripper” towers that treat Vanport Township’s water before it goes to more than 10,000 customers in Vanport, Brighton Township and Ohioville.

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TCE was first discovered in the Vanport wells in 1988. At that time, no company would admit responsibility for the contaminated ground.

The site near the Beaver Area Middle School has a long industrial history -- first as the Curtiss-Wright Corp. plant that made airplane propellers during World War II, followed by a Westinghouse plant afterward.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesonline.com/news/business/vanport-water-authority-still-dealing-with-consequences-of-industrial-contamination/article_c0aed1a4-e993-11e6-9fb2-0bc0c522e6f4.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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