2017 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 22:33:06 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Bishop Tub, East Whiteland, Pennsylvania
 
On toxic site abandoned for decades, developer sees townhouses sprouting in Chesco 

by Michaelle Bond
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
April 10, 2017

Asleep after a long day at her social-work job, Peggy Miros was jolted awake by a booming voice through a loudspeaker urging her and her neighbors to evacuate their homes.

A cloud of toxic gas had formed when chemicals accidentally combined at the steel tube manufacturer next to her housing development in East Whiteland Township, Chester County, in the early morning hours of June 9, 1981.

…

The EPA later found trichloroethylene (TCE), a degreasing agent linked to cancer, in the property's groundwater. The former Bishop Tube Co. site, which produced stainless steel tubes from the 1950s until 1999, now is host to graffitied and dilapidated buildings, shattered windows, cracked concrete, and overgrown vegetation, one of more than 450,000 contaminated “brownfields” across the nation.

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/toxic-brownfield-development-East-Whiteland-ONeill-DEP-Bishop-Tube-Malvern.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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