[CPEO-BIF] Thoro-Kleen dry-cleaning, Georgetown, Delaware

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DNREC plans remedial action at former Thoro-Kleen site


Ryan Mavity
Cape Gazette (DE)
December 4, 2020 


Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has unveiled an action plan to clean up hazardous waste at the former Thoro-Kleen dry cleaners site in Georgetown.

The less-than-1-acre site, located on Railroad Avenue, is owned by former state Sen. Joe Booth. The Thoro-Kleen dry-cleaning business had operated there from 1953 until 2010. The former dry-cleaning building was removed earlier this year with only the slab remaining. 

DNREC spokesman Michael Globetti said the site is divided into two operable units: operable unit-1 is the site of the former dry cleaning business, and operable unit-2, which includes soil, soil gas and groundwater contamination that migrated off-site. Globetti said the remediation plan is for operable unit-1; operable unit-2 will be addressed later, he said. Cleanup at operable unit-1 is being paid for by the state’s Brownfields program, with funding going to the Restoration Worship Center, a nonprofit organization which plans to use the site for a parking lot. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.capegazette.com/article/dnrec-plans-remedial-action-former-thoro-kleen-site/211421

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