[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Former New Cumberland Army Depot (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[I remember reading material from one of the court cases involving this 
site. The plaintiffs argued - persuasively, I thought - that soccer 
goalies eat dirt. - LS]


Marsh Run Park soccer fields in Fairview Township might be reopened in 3 
years
(Harrisburg) Patriot-News (PA)
February 22, 2010


Back in 1976, it must have seemed like a really good deal to Fairview 
Township officials - 14 acres of land, perfect for soccer fields, sold 
to the township by the New Cumberland Army Depot, for only a dollar.

But today, 34 years later, a locked chain-link fence surrounds the 
property at the far eastern edge of the Army's Defense Distribution 
Center in Fairview Township.

No one has played soccer at Marsh Run Park since it was closed by the 
township in August of 1987. In 1985, as part of a Department of Defense 
investigation of formerly used defense sites, preliminary testing 
revealed possible chemical contamination of soil and groundwater.

After almost 20 years of testing and remediating chemical contamination 
by the Army Corps of Engineers, the fence could come down, and the 
township could get its soccer fields back in three years.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/02/marsh_run_park_soccer_fields_i.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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