[CPEO-BIF] Levittown, Pennsylvania shopping center

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Chemical won't halt shopping center construction

By GEMA MARIA DUARTE
Bucks County Courier Times (PA)
September 28, 2007

Levittown Town Center officials said Tuesday that solvent found on the 
property won't affect the existing construction schedule and the 
chemical will be monitored for a year.

The dry cleaning chemical perchloroethylene was found in groundwater 
earlier this year when Wal-Mart was doing soil testing as part of its 
construction process. The discount store is one of a few stores with a 
contract to set up shop at the Levittown Parkway and Route 13 parcel 
owned by developer Stephen Ifshin of New York-based DLC Management.

Further construction of the shopping center is expected to start this 
fall, the developer has said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/147-09282007-1414964.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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