Found on www.wfmz.com – Read original post here. The Ridge Run PFAS HSCA Site is located in portions of East and West Rockhill Townships, Bucks County. After one public supply well in the area was found to contain combined concentrations of PFOA and PFOS that exceeded EPA’s 70 ppt Health Advisory Limit (HAL), and another public supply well […]
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Found on www.wfmz.com – Read original post here. A newly reopened East Rockhill Quarry pits a $224 million turnpike contract against a small group of residents accustomed to a quiet way of life. For more than three decades, residents of a wooded section of East Rockhill, north of the Pennridge Airport, have enjoyed all the offerings that living
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Written by: Chris Ruvo – Read original post here. Resumed activity at a long-dormant quarry in East Rockhill is impacting quality of life, causing road hazards, and threatening everything from property values to local water supply and streams, residents told the township Board of Supervisors Tuesday. Residents packed the supervisors’ evening meeting to voice their concerns about
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Written by: Chris Ruvo – Read original post here. Several hundred people flocked to an East Rockhill Zoning Hearing Board meeting with a host of questions and concerns about a long-dormant quarry that has begun operating again in the township. While officials held the meeting at Pennridge High School to accommodate the expected big crowd, the initial
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Written by: Chris Ruvo – Read original post here. East Rockhill residents again showed up in force for a township zoning hearing board meeting centered on the recently resumed operations at a quarry that had been dormant since the early 1980s. Township officials held the meeting on Rockhill Quarry on April 25 at the auditorium at Pennridge
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Written by Bob Keeler bkeeler@21st-centurymedia.com @bybobkeeler on Twitter – Read original post here. EAST ROCKHILL >> Plans to reopen the quarry on North Rockhill Road should include building up the road, township Engineer Steve Baluh said at the Feb. 27 East Rockhill Township Board of Supervisors meeting. “For the road to survive under the truck traffic,” he
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Written by Kyle Bagenstose – Read original post here. It’s said that moss doesn’t grow on rolling stones. The operators of the Rockill Quarry would like to find out if that’s true. Earlier this year, quarry operator Richard E. Pierson Materials controversially began blasting and crushing rock at the quarry in East Rockhill for the first time in decades, after the
Bob Keeler bkeeler@21st-centurymedia.com @bybobkeeler on Twitter – Read original post here. EAST ROCKHILL — Opponents and supporters of the plans for a quarry in the center of legal disputes between the township and the quarry operators both came out to a Sept. 20 Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection hearing trying to crush the arguments made by the other
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