[CPEO-BIF] Bethlehem Steel site, Bethlehem. Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Bethlehem Steel property gets 'green' makeover

Sarah Peters
Lehigh Valley Express-Times (PA)
May 11, 2012

Before development began on a parcel of former Bethlehem Steel  
brownfields, mining for slag left the land looking like the moon, a  
building executive said.

Despite the lunar history mentioned by Anthony Scarcia Jr., Allied  
Building Corporation's president and CEO, the property is getting a  
“green” facelift. The 1.2-million-square-foot property at 2785  
Commerce Center Boulevard will have a new identity as a warehouse in  
Lehigh Valley Industrial Park VII.

...

Wrobel said the property had higher concentrations of heavy metal,  
leftovers from Bethlehem Steel, than residential standards allow, so  
the contents were capped in the ground, where they will remain  
instead of entering the groundwater.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/bethlehem/index.ssf/2012/05/ 
former_bethlehem_steel_propert.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
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