[CPEO-BIF] Northern Virginia landfill for sale

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Landfill for Sale: Probable Source of TCE
Developer Has Contract on Landfill.


By Andrea Zentz
Loudoun Connection
May 26, 2005

For sale: 148 acres between Broad Run Farms and Countryside. "Many acres
of parkland for horseback, walks, bike paths, gardens." List Price: $2.5
million. 

One caveat: About 35 of those acres are the site of the Hidden Lane
Landfill. Officials have identified it as the probable source of
trichloroethylene (TCE), a carcinogen that has contaminated 22 wells in
the Broad Run Farms community. 

A developer put a contract on the property in February, the same month
that the Loudoun Department of Health started testing wells to see if
they contained TCE. The real estate listing also describes the landfill
as "cleared by the EPA." The Environmental Protection Agency put the
property on the Superfund list in 1988 after receiving a complaint about
a chemical waste at the site. It was removed from the list in 2003,
because information available at the time did not demonstrate a
significant  potential for hazardous waste, Office of Solid Waste
records show.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=51099&paper=67&cat=104

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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