A pair of environmental groups have filed a federal suit against PPG Industries? under the Clean Water Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act over the company?s former glass manufacturing site in Ford City.
PennEnvironment? and the Sierra Club? filed the suit after sending a notice letter to PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) on Nov. 2.
The Ford City site is in Armstrong County, about 50 miles from Pittsburgh, and was owned by PPG from 1899 to 1972. From 1949 to 1970 the company disposed of glass polishing waste slurry in lagoons on the site and had a solid waste landfill on the site from the 1920s to 1967, according to information from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The site is bordered by the Allegheny River.
The groups contend and the state DEP has found that the site contains high levels of metals, such as arsenic, lead, antimony, iron and chromium and is contaminating the area. In 1971, the DEP and the company had an agreement to monitor and submit a plan to eliminate the discharge. However, an acceptable plan has never been approved, according to the DEP
In March 2009, the DEP issued an administrative order under the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law for the company to begin monitoring contamination levels, bar people from the site and treat the contamination or remove it.
The suit contends these requirements have not been met.
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A pair of environmental groups have filed a federal suit against PPG Industries? under the Clean Water Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act over the company?s former glass manufacturing site in Ford City.
PennEnvironment? and the Sierra Club? filed the suit after sending a notice letter to PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) on Nov. 2.
The Ford City site is in Armstrong County, about 50 miles from Pittsburgh, and was owned by PPG from 1899 to 1972. From 1949 to 1970 the company disposed of glass polishing waste slurry in lagoons on the site and had a solid waste landfill on the site from the 1920s to 1967, according to information from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The site is bordered by the Allegheny River.
The groups contend and the state DEP has found that the site contains high levels of metals, such as arsenic, lead, antimony, iron and chromium and is contaminating the area. In 1971, the DEP and the company had an agreement to monitor and submit a plan to eliminate the discharge. However, an acceptable plan has never been approved, according to the DEP
In March 2009, the DEP issued an administrative order under the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law for the company to begin monitoring contamination levels, bar people from the site and treat the contamination or remove it.
The suit contends these requirements have not been met.
A spokesman for PPG did not return a call or e-mail seeking comment.
?PPG has had five decades to properly remediate this site, stop its illegal pollution, and protect the Allegheny River,? said Erika Staaf, PennEnvironment?s Clean Water Advocate, in a written statement. ?Our environmental laws are meaningless if polluters can violate them with impunity. When persistent violations are not addressed by the government, our federal environmental laws allow private citizens to enforce the law and protect the environment.?
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