[CPEO-BIF] Housing Development above TCE in Sellersville, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Developer seeks final approval for 34 homes on Sellersville plot

By Emily Morris
News-Herald (PA)
May 24, 2006

Park Ten Inc of Lansdale, owners of a 10+-acre property at the 
intersection of Franklin Way and Twelfth and North Main streets in 
Sellersville, is coming much closer to realization of a plan for 34 
homes on the property.

The group went before the Sellersville Planning Commission in May 
seeking recommendation for final approval, but did not have the 
documents needed for the recommendation, according to planning 
commission Chairman Rachel Swierzewski.

The documents included an Act 2 clearance letter from the state 
Department of Environmental Protection for the cleanup of 
trichloroethylene (TCE) found on the property, which was a 
radium-processing facility from 1914 to 1917 and also served as a 
landfill in the mid-1900s. TCE is usually linked to previous industrial 
activity and long-term exposure to vapors from the substance can be a 
potential threat to human health. DEP began cleanup of the site in 1996 
that included the removal of lead-contaminated soils and lower and 
higher-activity radioactive soils at a cost of nearly $6.2 million, 
according to DEP's Web site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16684997&BRD=1306&PAG=461&dept_id=187826&rfi=6
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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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