[CPEO-BIF] Water-line extension in Abington, Pennsyvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Project to provide public water underway a decade after contamination

BY LUKE RANKER
Scranton Times-Tribune (PA)
April 22, 2015


A decade after the state Department of Environmental Protection found industrial solvents contaminated well water in four Abingtons municipalities, residents will have access to clean, public water.

A $20 million extension of a line owned by Pennsylvania American Water — paid for by two Ivy Industrial Park tenants — began earlier this month, the DEP announced Tuesday. The 20-mile-long line will connect 400 households in Scott, South Abington, Waverly and North Abington townships to the utility. The project is part of the terms of an April 2011 settlement with industrial park tenants Bostik Inc. and Sandvik Inc. — the companies the DEP deemed responsible for contaminating groundwater with trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE) in those townships.

For about a year and half after contamination was found, Harry Bower, who lives in a contaminated section of Kevin Drive in Scott Twp., received bottled water. Then a water filter system, paid for and maintained by Sandvik Inc., was installed. He said 10 years without a solution to the contamination was too long.

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For the entire article, see
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/project-to-provide-public-water-underway-a-decade-after-contamination-1.1868103

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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