[CPEO-BIF] Old Vlasic facility in Hillsboro, Delaware

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Sides square off in debate over new Allen Harim plant
Company wants to expand to old Vlasic facility in Hillsboro

by Ron MacArthur
Cape Gazette(DE)
April 2, 2018

For residents who oppose a chicken deboning plant at the site of the former Vlasic pickle plant near Millsboro, there is no middle ground.

Allen Harim Foods officials say the proposed use is a drastic change from a previously approved poultry processing plant. They also say a brownfield on the site will be monitored to protect area wells. But those statements have not convinced opponents.

“This community is terrified that the door will be opened to a processing plant and distribution center,” said Maria Payan, who represents Socially Responsible Agricultural Project. “You can't add more pollution to this area, because it's overburdened with it.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capegazette.com/article/sides-square-debate-over-new-allen-harim-plant/153363

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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>
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