[CPEO-BIF] Homes on a contaminated orchard, Berks County, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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