[CPEO-BIF] Proposed velodrome, Lower Providence, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup efforts at future velodrome site detailed

By CARL ROTENBERG
Norristown Times Herald (PA)
November 4, 2006

LOWER PROVIDENCE - The 14-acre site in the Valley Forge Corporate Center 
where entrepreneurs plan to build a proposed, $16.7 million indoor 
bicycle track and event center and a 150-room, multi-story hotel has a 
history of groundwater contamination.
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Commodore Business Machines ran a computer chip manufacturing facility 
at 950 Rittenhouse Road from 1970 to 1992. It became a federal EPA 
Superfund site after it was discovered waste solvents stored in two 
tanks leaked volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the groundwater, the 
soil and the bedrock under the manufacturing building, the EPA said.
Rockwell Automation, the successor company of Commodore, built a 
treatment and pump building in August 2000 to satisfy the EPA's "record 
of decision."

Trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethene found underground in the 
groundwater is currently being removed by pumping the water through a 
"TCE air stripper," said J.H. Russell Friday morning, the operations 
manager of Audubon Water Co. of Lower Providence.

The company also injected potassium permanganate into the ground to 
speed up the chemical oxidation of TCE in the soil, said April Flipse, a 
state DEP project officer.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17421086&BRD=1672&PAG=461&dept_id=33380&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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