[CPEO-MEF] Armorcast property, Birdsboro, PA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wheels of progress grinding slowly

By Andrew McCue
Southern Berks News (PA)
January 4, 2007

Almost a year ago, local, state and federal officials showed optimism in 
the possibility of selling and revitalizing Birdsboro's 101-acre 
Armorcast property.

The idea continues to face many obstacles. The Schylkill riverfront 
property is considered a brownfield, a property complicated by the 
presence of hazardous substances, pollutants or contamination.

...

"The Army is pretty well done," said Steve Willems of Keystone 
Commercial and Industrial LLC, the realtor marketing the property.
Lampe said by the end of January, the Army should complete the project 
that was originally scheduled to end last fall.

"But they decided there was more that they would take responsibility for 
cleaning up," she said.

Lampe said the Army is only dealing with contamination that occurred 
during the military's stewardship of the site.

"Just because they leave doesn't mean it's cleaned up," she said.
The facility, including the 750,000-square-foot main building, once 
housed a military tank factory that operated during World War II and the 
Korean War.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.berksmontnews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17670848&BRD=2694&PAG=461&dept_id=552988&rfi=6

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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