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Article: DEP Announces Forward TWP. Settlement Will Provide Reimbursement for Clean Up Costs
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- September 15, 2009
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Helen Humphreys of PA Department of Environmental
Protection, +1-412-442-4183
Agreement Will Fund Additional Cleanup, Soil Sampling and Lab
Analysis
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of
Environmental Protection has reached an agreement to resolve all
litigation in connection with the 2005 Forward Township, Allegheny
County, ash slide and its related 2006 subsidence incident on State
Route 2007, locally known as River Hill Road.
An embankment adjacent to River Hill Road, made of coal ash
deposited decades ago, collapsed on Jan. 25, 2005, and temporarily
dammed the stream at the embankment's base. When the ash dam failed,
water carried ...