2008 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 09:18:44 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Macoby Creek Hazardous Cleanup Site, Upper Hanover, Pennsylvania
 
$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
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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