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Cleanup on the corridor
Environmental work at the old Armstrong site unearths chemicals and, yes, even a rail car as land is readied for development.
Sunday News
Oct 12, 2008 00:19 EST
Lancaster
By GIL SMART, Associate Editor

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I'm going to guess that the boxcar full of sand was buried there by the mountion lions after they no longer had a use for it as their litter box!!!!
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So Gil, you're the designated spokesman for this PR effort? So many holes uin this report as to be laughable.
Then you end with this:
"And as late as February of this year, DEP officials continued to note "exceedences of arsenic," among other substances, on the site.

Nikoloff says virtually all of it is gone. "Stuff from Norfolk Southern could seep onto our site," he noted and, indeed, DEP documentation shows portions of the railroad property are as contaminated as or more contaminated than the Armstrong site was, from fueling operations that ceased in the late 1970s or early 1980s.

Yet one reason EDC pledged to clean the site to residential standards was that "we don't want to have any of this come back and bite us" down the road, Nikoloff said.

Workers are now installing infrastructure on the site — water, sewer and electrical lines, roads, sidewalks and curbs. But environmental remediation goes on. "We've literally bombed that site with test wells," Nikoloff said, and DEP regulations stipulate that those wells must come up clear four quarters in a row before EDC can turn the site over to F&M and LGH for redevelopment.

Nikoloff hopes that will happen by the third or fourth quarter of next year.

"F&M and LGH are expecting a clean bill of health," Nikoloff said. "We're going to give it to them."

I don't know how a rational person could read that and not conclude they are boring wells till they find some that manage to come up clear for four quarters. And that they will manage it by hook or crook by the timeframe specified.
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