The former Bishop Tube Co. site in Frazer, East Whiteland Township, will get $11.5 million for environmental cleanup following a settlement between Pennsylvania and the companies responsible for polluting the property, writes Frank Kummer for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The three companies agreed to pay the settlement, which includes a trust fund to cover any future issues. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection confirmed that the agreement has been finalized and all parties have accepted the terms.
“Responsible parties should be held accountable for cleaning up these old contaminated industrial sites in the commonwealth,” said DEP Secretary Jessica Shirley.
Located on Malin Road, the 13.7-acre property is a former steel tubing manufacturing site that remains empty. The site has been embroiled in a lengthy debate regarding environmental cleanup standards and whether housing should be permitted there.
Bishop Tube operated on the site for nearly fifty years until 1999 and left contamination linked to its manufacturing practices, with trichloroethylene, or TCE, identified as the primary contaminant of concern.
The DEP will oversee cleanup of the site under Act 2 standards, part of Pennsylvania’s brownfields program designed to prepare former industrial and commercial properties for redevelopment.
Read more about the settlement and how the companies will oversee cleanup from the site in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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