[CPEO-BIF] Forestville Industrial Plating Co. site, Southington, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cleanup should give Queen Street site a future


By Richie Rathsack
Record-Journal (CT)
May 16, 2011 11:30 pm

SOUTHINGTON - Hidden behind stores on Queen Street is a little- 
noticed factory building, abandoned for years. Town officials were  
happy to see an environmental cleanup sign appear near the driveway  
to the property, especially after approving a tax abatement package  
last week to encourage the work.

Economic Development Coordinator Louis Perillo III said contaminated  
sites like that are difficult to market due to the cost of remediation.
"I think this one is huge for us," Perillo said. "The size of the  
parcel, the level of contamination, two acres on Queen Street; the  
developer had mentioned 30,000 square feet of retail space. We think  
that would add to Queen Street's relative strength."

The property was once home to the Forestville Industrial Plating Co.,  
which specialized in plating metal springs and screws, according to  
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency website. There was a lagoon  
on site that contained plating wastes and metal hydroxide sludge,  
according to the EPA.


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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