[CPEO-BIF] U.S. Gauge site, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

This Bucks County ground was so polluted it had to be burned. Now it holds a factory.

by Katie Park
Philadelphia Inquirer
October 24, 2019

A family-owned industrial furnace manufacturer that counts Boeing and General Electric among its customers commemorated the opening of its new plant Thursday with Bucks County officials who had long sought to redevelop what was once unused, heavily contaminated land.

Solar Manufacturing bought 8½ acres out of 44 in an industrial district of Sellersville, a borough of 4,300 people about 40 miles north of Philadelphia. William R. Jones and his wife, Myrtle, said they purchased the property in 2017 for a little more than $1 million and spent $9 million to build the two-story, 59,000-square-foot plant.

“We wanted to breathe new life into this old site,” Robert G. Loughery, chairman of the Bucks County Board of Commissioners, said at the company’s ribbon-cutting Thursday morning.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.inquirer.com/business/solar-manufacturing-sellersville-bucks-county-contamination-20191024.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
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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