[CPEO-BIF] Tabernacle, Pennsylvania shopping center

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[This article raises an issue I've been running across lately. How well 
do brownfields tools, which are designed to make property ready for 
reuse, address off-site contamination? In this case, the dollar amount - 
thus far - is small, but the developer IS being held liable because it 
allegedly "failed to conduct a proper environmental study." - LS]

DEP seeks to recoup $70,000 from business owners

By ED MOORHOUSE
Burlington County Times (PA)
September 8, 2007

TABERNACLE - The state Department of Environmental Protection is seeking 
$70,000 from those it says are responsible for the contamination of 25 
residential wells on or near Richter Road.

In February, the department identified the closed Joan's Cleaners, an 
old dry cleaning business, as the source of contamination of the private 
drinking wells.

...

Haas Plaza LLC bought the shopping center in February 2005, after the 
contamination had occurred, but state environmental officials are 
holding Haas accountable because they contend the company failed to 
conduct a proper environmental study.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-09082007-1404334.html

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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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