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 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org |
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