Re: [CPEO-BIF] Vlasic Pickle site, Dagsboro, Delaware

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State officials address environmental issues at proposed poultry plant

By Sarah Lake Rayne

Sussex Countian (DE)
November 27. 2013

The results of an environmental investigation conducted by state  
officials at the former Vlasic Pickle plant in Dagsboro were  
presented to concerned residents at a recent public workshop.

The workshop, held Thursday in Millsboro by the Delaware Department  
of Natural Resource's Community Involvement Advisory Council,  
addressed concerns surrounding plans by Allen M. Harim Foods to  
convert the old pickle factory into a poultry processing plant.

Although Allen Harim has yet to purchase the site, the company has  
entered into a brownfields development agreement with DNREC to  
address environmental contaminants left behind by Vlasic, owned by  
Pinnacle Foods. The site was certified as a brownfield in July and a  
brownfield investigation was conducted in August and September,  
revealing elevated levels of the chemicals perchloroethylene,  
trichloroethylene and lead in the groundwater. Levels of nitrates in  
some wells also exceeded state standards.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sussexcountian.com/article/20131127/NEWS/131129802

On Nov 25, 2013, at 9:13 PM, Lenny Siegel wrote:

> Public hearing for proposed chicken plant rescheduled for Dec. 17
>
> Sussex Countian (DE)
> November 25, 2013
>
> At the public's request, the proposed public hearing regarding  
> potential redevelopment of the former Vlasic Pickle site on  
> Pinnacle Way in Dagsboro has been rescheduled for 6 p.m. on Dec. 17  
> at the Millsboro Town Hall, 322 Wilson Highway.
>
> The original date of the hearing was Dec. 4; however members of the  
> public requested a hearing at a later date to allow for more time  
> to review the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and  
> Environmental Control's brownfield investigation and environmental  
> remediation plan for the site.
>
> ...
>
> For the entire article, see
> http://www.sussexcountian.com/article/20131125/NEWS/131129854/1003/ 
> NEWS
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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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