[CPEO-BIF] TCE and PCE in water, Furlong, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Residents will have longer wait for clean water

By CHRISTINA KRISTOFIC
Bucks County Courier Times (PA)
December 3, 2009

Furlong residents won't get public water because a source cannot be found.

Furlong residents have been living with contaminated groundwater for 
about 30 years.

...

The DEP has cited two now-closed factories, Furlong Manufacturing and 
Vandor Manufacturing, as the sources of the contamination. Both used 
degreasing agents that contained TCE and PCE.

DEP officials have estimated that 38 homes are drawing water from wells 
contaminated with TCE and PCE. The DEP has installed and maintained 
whole-house carbon filtration systems for many of those homes, and paid 
for bottled water to be delivered to other homes.

...

Philadelphia developer Joe Grasso, who plans to build a shopping center 
in Doylestown Township at Routes 263 and 313, offered in 2008 to install 
public water for his property and the neighboring properties if he could 
build a supermarket.

Residents fought his plan to build a supermarket, and Grasso withdrew 
his plan and his offer to install public water.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/92/2009/december/03/residents-will-have-longer-wait-for-clean-water.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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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