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Article: Ex-Westmoreland Glass factory site declared nuisance
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- Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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- September 29, 2009
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Hempfield supervisors Monday declared the former Westmoreland
Glass factory site in Grapeville a public nuisance and have given
the owners a deadline to clean up the area and raze the decaying
buildings and huge brick towers that loom over Norfolk Southern
railroad tracks.
By a unanimous vote, the board ruled the site is a "danger to the
health, safety and welfare of residents" who live along the tracks.
The site is owned by Beacon Pennsylvania Holdings Inc., which was
given a deadline to clean up the site that once was one of the
busiest and most productive glass-manufacturing facilities in the
world.
The board held a hearing last June to hear testimony about the
potential threat to ...