[CPEO-BIF] Bally, PA -- Contamination hinders home's sale

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contamination hinders home's sale

Evan Brandt
Pottstown Mercury (PA)
March 23, 2007

BALLY -- Scott Schaediger has three children and every time he walks out 
of his house he sees the former Bally Case and Cooler plant, and he 
shudders.

"I think about this thing every day," Schaediger told the 60 or so 
residents who gathered in the Bally firehouse to hear what the 
Environmental Protection Agency is doing to provide clean water to 
borough residents.

...

His house on North Fourth Street sits right on top of the contamination 
plume that stretches from the plant to the municipal well a few hundred 
yards away, he said.

And when he bought his house, no one told him.

"Is it legal to build on top of a Superfund site? I cannot believe that 
someone could get permission to build there," Schaediger said Thursday 
evening. "And certainly not without disclosing it."


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18117374&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&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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