Pennsylvania county awarded demo funds
Schuylkill County awarded $2 million from state government to address nuisance properties.
The government of Schuylkill County in eastern Pennsylvania says it has been awarded $2 million in state grants to go toward demolition projects in the county.
The announcement was made by County Administrator Gary Bender in early March, according to an online report from
Skook News. According to that online media outlet, Bender made the announcement in front of a former high school in the county that it describes as “falling into disrepair since the 1970s.”
Additional elected and appointed officials took part in the announcement event, and they named several communities in the county that would likely benefit from the grants by being able to take down abandoned properties considered nuisances or eyesores.
EPA links PFAS contamination in New Hampshire to Coakley Landfill Superfund site
The agency says it has found some level of PFAS in all of the two dozen wells that have been sampled near Greenland, New Hampshire.
Federal officials say they have linked three contaminated water wells in Greenland, New Hampshire, to the Seacoast’s Coakley Landfill Superfund site.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it now knows that the landfill has impacted three nearby homes with well water that are above state limits on two harmful chemicals PFOA, which is a common kind of PFAS, and 1,4 dioxane.
The agency says it will continue testing area water supplies for chemicals indefinitely. The EPA has already found some levels of PFAS in all of the two dozen nearby wells they ve sampled. They say they still can t be sure it s all from Coakley, though neighbors remain skeptical.