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DEP Opportunity To Bid On Lancaster, Beaver Counties Tire Pile Cleanups
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The Department of Environmental Protection this week published notice of an opportunity to bid on a project to cleanup waste tire piles in Lancaster and Beaver counties.
“Cleaning up these sites, which have been long-standing nuisances, is of great interest to the state,” acting DEP Secretary Michael Krancer said. “These sites have been the subject of frequent complaints and we’re taking action.” DEP’s Waste Tire Program developed a priority list of 17 abandoned tire sites in need of remediation, based on a number of environmental and hazardous criteria. Topping the list was the McFadden pile containing 350,000 tires in Fulton Township, Lancaster County; and the 50,000-tire pile at Jake Ours Junkyard in Rochester Township, Beaver County.
Tire piles are fertile breeding sites for mosquitoes and can also pose a contamination risk to the surrounding ground, water and air in the event of a fire.
Cleanup of the abandoned tire piles will be the first two projects funded by Act 24 of 2010 as set forth by the Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act. The law allocates $1.25 million annually over four consecutive years for tire cleanup projects.
For details on these and other projects to bid on, visit the PA E Marketplace website and search under "Agency: Environmental Protection."
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