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Nov 18, 2009 10:32 pm US/Eastern
Arsenic Levels Not So Bad In Butler Neighborhood
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The Department of Environmental Protection says arsenic was found last spring in the soil in the Kaufman Drive neighborhood.
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In the City of Butler, officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the State Health Department told a group of South Side residents that the arsenic problem discovered last spring in a local community park and housing development is not as bad as first thought.
Eric Gustafson, the DEP's regional environmental cleanup program manager, told a gathering at the Butler Center Avenue School that the state has taken 141 samples at the site and found it safe for both residential and recreational users.
The site was once used by a former glass plant and soil samples in April showed evidence of arsenic in the soil where they were testing to evaluate the safety of a proposed rails-to-trails project.
Officials said that although any carcinogenic risk at the site has been eliminated and remaining surface soils meet the state's arsenic cleanup goal, more testing has to be done on soil and waste material in a non-residential section of the neighborhood.
After the meeting, there was mixed reaction to the DEP findings.
"I'm somewhat relieved by the news, but, it's a little scary when you have someone digging near your house," Ron Gray, a homeowner, said.
Another resident, Joshua Gibson, said he still did not feel safe because DEP was not in the neighborhood for fun, they were there for a reason.
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