[CPEO-BIF] ", Toxins linger on Berks farm from long-ago environmental sins, " Hereford Township, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxins linger on Berks farm from long-ago environmental sins

By Beth Brelje 
MediaNews Group/Pottstown Mercury (PA)
September 30, 2019

HEREFORD TOWNSHIP - Nobody knows precisely when the dumping of 55-gallon drums of trichloroethylene started on the Crossley Farm, but it was at least 50 years ago. The more than $70 million cleanup of that toxic mess is still happening today.

In the 1960s and '70s at least 1,200 drums of the cancer-causing industrial solvent and degreaser were taken from Bally Case & Cooler Co. and buried along with household garbage in a pit on the 209-acre dairy farm owned at the time by brothers Harry and James Crossley.

It was not exactly illegal, that is until the 1976 enactment of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act gave the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency authority to control hazardous waste, including how it is stored.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.pottsmerc.com/news/local/toxins-linger-on-berks-farm-from-long-ago-environmental-sins/article_b09e8a6c-e30e-11e9-8f66-378eb98d0602.html

See also
https://www.pottsmerc.com/crossley-superfund-site-farm-timeline/article_fb6f8d02-e30e-11e9-98f2-bbe595d99598.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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