2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 12 Jan 2006 23:15:26 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] 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.

"Boy, if these walls could talk," said Congressman Jim Gerlach (R-Berks) recently while touring the mammoth Armorcast site with borough and county officials.

...

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

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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