[CPEO-BIF] Ambler, Pennsylvania asbestos sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

SUPERFUND: A Philadelphia suburb's asbestos nightmare 

by George Cahlink
Greenware
July 27, 2016


AMBLER, Pa. -- U.S. EPA's Greg Voigt opens a chain-link gate, pushes aside waist-high weeds and scrambles to the highest point in this Philadelphia suburb: a 100-foot pile of industrial waste.

"Check out the million-dollar view," Voigt jokes as he looks out from a gravel plateau covering asbestos mounds he monitors for EPA's Superfund program.

Welcome to the "White Mountains of Ambler." Less than 20 miles from this week's Democratic National Convention, the tree-shrouded toxic landmark is a reminder of this town's past as the asbestos manufacturing capital of the world.

Asbestos -- building insulation material largely banned by EPA since the 1970s because of its link to mesothelioma, a lung cancer -- made Ambler a thriving blue-collar hamlet for three-quarters of a century EPA has spent the past 30 years cleaning up and monitoring its two Superfund sites, which take up more than 50 acres here.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060040811

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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