[CPEO-BIF] "Pottstown [Pennsylvania] eyeing contaminated land for park"

[Lenny Siegel]

Pottstown eyeing contaminated land for park


By Evan Brandt, 
Posstown Mercury (PA)
September 19, 2017


POTTSTOWN - Borough council has voted to move ahead with acquiring land at 860 Cross St., which has chemical contamination in the soil and groundwater, for use as part of an expansion of Pollock Park.

The property is roughly .86 acres and from 1971 until 1995 the property was a polyurethane sealant manufacturing plant, according to an environmental assessment of the property completed in July.

In 2001, trichloroethylene, better known as TCE, was discovered in the soil and groundwater at the site; and in 2003, polychlorinated biphenyls, better known as PCBs were found in the soil, according to the report.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pottsmerc.com/general-news/20170919/pottstown-eyeing-contaminated-land-for-park

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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