PHILADELPHIA (May 22, 2013) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and three partner organizations are planting 5,500 new trees on 70 acres of mountainside at the Palmerton Zinc Superfund Site along the Appalachian Trail in Palmerton, Pa. that will be in place by Memorial Day. “EPA is proud to be part of this tree planting… Read more
citizensvoice.com/news/five-spills-reported-at-gas-pipeline-sites-1.1313538#axzz1uZEq4r00 By Elizabeth Skrapits (Staff Writer) Published: May 11, 2012 DALLAS TWP. – The state Department of Environmental Protection is monitoring a series of drilling mud spills at a natural gas pipeline installation. Chief Gathering LLC, recently bought out by PVR Partners, hired contractors to install a pipeline to connect natural gas wells in Susquehanna… Read more
citizensvoice.com/news/driller-fined-for-northern-tier-releases-1.1269832#axzz1ltij0snT By Laura Legere (Staff Writer) Published: February 10, 2012 State environmental regulators have fined Chesapeake Appalachia $565,000 for three incidents at Northern Tier natural gas well sites, including an April 2011 wellhead failure in Bradford County that released thousands of gallons of wastewater into a nearby stream. The company paid $190,000 for the failure… Read more
www.timesleader.com/news/Old_gas_wells_bring_risks_of_chemicals_01-17-2012.html TIMOTHY PUKO Pittsburgh Tribune-Review January 17, 2012 PITTSBURGH — Almost all of the 20 homeowners in Belmar pay to run a water chlorination system to replace what was free well water from an Allegheny River aquifer. In the 1980s, an oil driller polluted the water, in part, they believe, by dumping waste brine into… Read more
http://www.tnonline.com/2011/jul/19/expensive-proposition By ANDY LEIBENGUTH aleibenguth@tnonline.com Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Forty Tamaqua property owners are being given 60-day notices to stop discharging wastewater directly to the Wabash Creek culvert and to connect to Tamaqua’s municipal sewer system. The work is to be done at property owners’ expense. The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued an… Read more
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/construction-of-waterline-2-5-million-penalty-in-ivy-park-agreement-1.1156956#axzz1OKViizAw BY SARAH HOFIUS HALL (STAFF WRITER) Published: June 4, 2011 The companies responsible for contaminating groundwater in four Lackawanna County municipalities must install a waterline for as many as 500 homes and will be fined $2.5 million, the Department of Environmental Protection announced Friday. The consent order and agreement with Bostik Inc. and Sandvik… Read more
http://citizensvoice.com/news/cancer-cases-raise-worry-in-pittston-neighborhood-1.1149970#axzz1MzQ9BcoU By Andrew Staub (Staff Writer) Published: May 21, 2011 It seems everybody who lives near Chuck Meninchini is sick. The radius of disease circles Mill Street and Carroll Street in Pittston, Meninchini’s hometown. In a one-block radius on the streets five people have brain cancer, Meninchini said. And there’s more. Fifteen people in the… Read more
http://www.tnonline.com/node/197237 Reported on Friday, May 20, 2011 By LIZ PINKEY tneditor@tnonline.com Fifty six properties in the borough of Tamaqua have been identified as having active or once active illegal sewer connections to the Wabash Creek. Those that were once active may need further investigation to determine if they will need to be addressed. Council president… Read more
(PHILADELPHIA – March 11, 2011) – The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency in cooperation with the National Park Service, will oversee use of an aircraft to plant grass and other vegetation on a 500-acre section of the Palmerton Zinc Superfund site in Pennsylvania along the Appalachian Trail at the top of Blue Mountain. This project… Read more
Dimock, Pennsylvania Residents to Share $4.1 Million, Receive Gas Mitigation Systems Under DEP-Negotiated Settlement with Cabot Oil and Gas Additional $500,000 to Reimburse DEP for Investigative Costs; DEP to Drop Montrose Water Line Plan Given Uncertain Prospects HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Residents of Dimock Township, Susquehanna County, who have had their drinking… Read more
