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COUNCIL ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT

Administrative - Formal · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 19585

$20K
Penalty
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Cost recovery
$0
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
03-2001-0223
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
Multimedia
N
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (3)

Summary

ON MAY 5, 2000, EPA RECEIVED FROM JEN A DEMOLITION NOTIFICATION FORM ( INITIAL NOTICE ) REGARDING A DEMOLITION ACTIVITY SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE AT A FACILITY OWNED BY CRSD LOCATED AT 301 TWINING FORD ROAD, RICHBORO, PENNSYLVANIA 18954. THE INITIAL NOTICE IDENTIFIED THE ABATEMENT CONTRACTOR AS JEN THE WASTE TRANSPORTER AS WASTE MANAGEMENT, THE WASTE DISPOSAL SITE AS THE GROWS LANDFILL AND THE AIR MONITORING FIRM AS SYNERTECH, INC. ON MAY 16, 2000, EPA INSPECTOR RICH PONAK SET OUT TO CONDUCT AN ASBESTOS NESHAP COMPLIANCE INSPECTION AT THE FACILITY. UPON ARRIVING AT THE 301 TWINING FORD ROAD ADDRESS SPECIFIED IN THE INITIAL NOTICE, MR. PONAK FOUND THAT HE WAS NOT AT THE DESCRIBED FACILITY, BUT AT SCHOOL DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES. HE EVENTUALLY WAS ADVISED TO HIM THAT ASBESTOS ABATEMENT AND DEMOLITION ACTIVITIES WERE NOT TAKING PLACE AT THEIR PRESENT LOCATION AND THAT THE FACILITY DESCRIBED IN THE INITIAL NOTICE WAS LOCATED AT HOLLAND ROAD IN RICHBORO, PENNSYVLANIA. WHEN MR. PONAK FINALLY ARRIVED ON-SITE AT HE FACILITY, HE INITIALLY OBSERVED WORK CREW MEMBERS REMOVING BAGS OF ASBESTOS WASTE MATERIAL FROM THE BASEMENT OF A BUILDING AND PLACING THE BAGGED ASBESTOS WASTE INTO AN UNMARKED VAN WHICH THEY TOLE HIM WOULD BE USED TO TRANSPORT THE ASBESTOS WASTE TO SAFE SIDE ENVIRONMENTAL. MR. PONAK OBSERVED THAT THERE WERE NO ASBESTOS WARNING SIGNS ANYWH

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