From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Fri, 3 Feb 2017 21:16:47 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] TCE from Westinghouse site, Vanport, Pennsylvania |
Vanport water authority still dealing with consequences of industria contamination By Jared Stonesifer Beaver County Times (PA) February 3, 2017 VANPORT TWP. -- A battle is brewing among several entities over financial responsibility for water treatment, and the township municipal authority -- for the time being -- is stuck in the middle footing the bill. That bill -- estimated by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to be $5,500 a month -- pays for two “air stripper” towers that treat Vanport Township’s water before it goes to more than 10,000 customers in Vanport, Brighton Township and Ohioville. ... TCE was first discovered in the Vanport wells in 1988. At that time, no company would admit responsibility for the contaminated ground. The site near the Beaver Area Middle School has a long industrial history -- first as the Curtiss-Wright Corp. plant that made airplane propellers during World War II, followed by a Westinghouse plant afterward. ... For the entire article, see http://www.timesonline.com/news/business/vanport-water-authority-still-dealing-with-consequences-of-industrial-contamination/article_c0aed1a4-e993-11e6-9fb2-0bc0c522e6f4.html -- 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 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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