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 soilBy 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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