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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lower Providence supervisors review plans to protect proposed homes  
from contaminated groundwater

By Carl Rotenberg
Times Herald (PA)
May 21, 2015


LOWER PROVIDENCE - The containment of groundwater contamination by  
trichloroethylene (TCE) near proposed homes off Germantown Pike was  
discussed by the board of supervisors and state Department of  
Environmental Protection (DEP) officials Thursday night.

In February the board approved zoning changes to permit townhouses in  
the I-industrial district with a conditional use hearing. W.B. Homes  
Inc. of North Wales has plans to build 139 townhouses on a 35-acre  
"western" parcel at the intersection of Germantown Pike and River  
Road and 12 single-family homes on a 4.5-acre, "eastern" parcel off  
Cross Keys Road.

Soil contamination from TCE is limited to one area behind a rear  
parking lot, said Christopher Canavan, the senior vice president of  
W.B. Homes. TCE is a nonflammable, colorless liquid that is used  
mainly as a solvent. TCE contamination was discovered in the ground  
owned by Superior Tube.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesherald.com/general-news/20150521/lower-providence- 
supervisors-review-plans-to-protect-proposed-homes-from-contaminated- 
groundwater

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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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