Subject of Resolution to Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Each resident of Haverford is affected by progress in decontaminating the Havertown PCP Superfund Site and its groundwater where about $13M has already been spent. Leadership calls for a resolution crossing ward boundaries.
EPA will be undertaking a 5-year review of the water treatment remedy during the summer of 2005. Haverford endorsed a 6-point program requesting EPA to provide answers and graphics to the following issues:
- Analyze data collected and chemically analyzed in the monthly discharge monitoring reports since 2000
- Organize, prepare tables and present graphic results for 5-years
- Illustrate removal of hazardous substances and chemical contaminants from groundwater entering into the water treatment plant
- Define purity of water and elimination of hazardous substances from water now discharged from the plant into surface waters
- Draw conclusions concerning abatement of hazardous substances over the previous 5-year period
- Define mid-course corrective actions to be implemented for future operation of the water treatment plant
It would be desirable for EPA to illustrate and explain to Haverford how much actual contaminant levels are declining beneath the site because less contaminated groundwater is brought into the contaminated pumped area and diluting it.
It is appropriate for Haverford to closely follow EPA’s water treatment remedy because land use in the area is affected. Additionally, operation, maintenance and water testing costs of about $1M/year could be transferred to the state as early as 2013 or just another 5-year review plus 3-years away.
There are no costs or negative effects involved when the commissioners’ endorse a resolution requesting EPA to prepare a detailed and illustrative 5-year presentation that addresses the points listed above.
You could add your voices and show your support to those already sent to EPA and if you do there will be a faster better cleanup and reuse of the area.
Recipients:
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Southeast Regional Office
2 E. Main Street
Norristown, PA 19401
Tim Cherry
Thomas Sheehan, HSCA Supervisor
George Horvat, Program Officer
Steve Sinding, Environmental Program Manager
Joseph Feola, Regional Director , SE Regional Office
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1650 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Jill Lowe, Remedial Program Manager
Wendy Jastremski, Community Involvement Coordinator
Tony Dappolone, Chief, Eastern Pennsylvania Remedial Section
Peter Schaul, Chief, Remedial Branch
Kathy Hodgkiss, Deputy Director, Hazardous Site Cleanup
Abe Ferdas, Director, Hazardous Site Cleanup
Michael
H. Levin, Ph.D., F.A.A.A.S. (PhilaMike@aol.com)
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