[CPEO-BIF] Watson Johnson landfill site, Richland, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA getting ready to clean up Richland landfill


By Hilary Bentman
Burlington County Times (PA)
July 25, 2011


A decade after a former municipal landfill in Richland was declared a  
Superfund site, EPA officials are finalizing plans to remedy the  
contamination there.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will spend an estimated $10  
million to $12 million on a two-pronged plan to address the problems  
at the former Watson Johnson landfill site, part of a 56-acre  
property on East Pumping Station Road outside Quakertown.

Plans call for capping the landfill and injecting the groundwater  
with agents that will reduce the hazardous chemicals. Designs should  
be completed by the end of September and officials hope to secure  
funding by June 2012.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.phillyburbs.com/my_town/quakertown/epa-getting-ready-to- 
clean-up-richland-landfill/ 
article_3d7ba9e9-1d63-5972-9489-3e9785ca7c07.html

(You may need to cut and paste the link.)

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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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