[CPEO-BIF] Macoby Creek Hazardous Cleanup Site, Upper Hanover, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

$1.2 million cleanup begins in Upper Hanover

By Evan Brandt
Pottstown Mercury (PA)
July 8, 2008

UPPER HANOVER - A $1.2 million cleanup of a site contaminated with TCE 
and cadmium is set to begin this week, according to state officials.

A 3.79-acre site off Spring Valley Road is known to officials of the 
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection as the Macoby Creek 
Hazardous Cleanup Site.

But from the 1950s to the 1970s it was known as VA Savarese Plating, 
said Lynda Rebarchak, a spokeswoman for the DEP's Southeast Regional 
Office in Norristown.

...

There is a buyer interested in redeveloping the site, Rebarchak said, 
which is one reason the DEP decided to move ahead with the cleanup.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pottsmerc.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19836709&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=6

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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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