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Article: Brownfield Blues; Northern Liberties residents demand Tower Investments share information about cleaning up environmental contamination at the former Schmidt's Brewery site.

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September 28, 2005
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When police arrived at the former Schmidt's Brewery site at Second and Girard in Northern Liberties just after midnight on June 26, 2002, they found contractor Moneer Farhat burying about 100 cubic yards of "sand contaminated with PCBs" 6 feet underground, according to a police report.

Farhat, president of the now-defunct Philadelphia Building Group Inc., told officers he was covering the toxic soil at the construction site "to make it safe" until he had a chance to "notify the state," the police report states.

An inspector from the Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections (L&I) visited the former brewery the following day. He ordered a work stoppage, and slapped the owner of ...

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