[CPEO-BIF] Good Oil site, New Hanover, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEP plans April meeting on contaminated New Hanover wells

By Evan Brandt

Pottstown Mercury (PA)
March 28,2012

NEW HANOVER - As many as five private wells have been contaminated  
with dangerous chemicals as the result of underground leaks from the  
former Good Oil site near Layfield and Hoffmansville roads, according  
to state officials.

...

Lynda Rebarchak, a spokeswoman for the DEP, said the wells have been  
found to be contaminated primarily with three chemicals that belong  
to a company of pollutants called volatile organic compounds.

"The contaminants include volatile organic compounds (VOCs) - TCE and  
its breakdown products (DCE and vinyl chloride) - as well as fuel- 
related compounds (including Benzene and MTBE)," she wrote in a March  
26 email to The Mercury.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pottsmerc.com/article/20120328/NEWS01/120329457/dep-plans- 
april-meeting-on-contaminated-new-hanover-wells

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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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