2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 7 Mar 2006 21:38:19 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Homes on a contaminated orchard, Berks County, Pennsylvania
 
Developer will treat contaminated soil

By JIM HOOK
Chambersburg Public Opinion (PA)
March 7, 2006

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP — A Berks County developer is going to great lengths to develop an old orchard in Washington Township.

Carlino Development Group, Wyomissing, is prepared to dig up more than 20,000 dump-truck loads of arsenic-tainted soil before building 491 homes on Old Forge Road.

Soil throughout the former Knouse Fruitlands is contaminated with lead and arsenic, according to a report RT Environmental Services Inc., King of Prussia, prepared for Carlino Development.

According to John Repetz, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, DEP has approved Carlino Development's clean-up action ...

For the entire article, see
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060307/NEWS01/603070313/1002

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