Business Annoucement and Outreach - Residental Water Testing Program Available Private Well Testing Marcellus Shale

B.F. Environmental Consultants Inc. of Dallas, Pennsylvania has collaborated with local Pennsylvania Certified Laboratories to assist landowners and royality owners in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The program provides a mechanism were the private well and water supply owners can have their well or water source inspected, documented, and sampled to meet chain-of-custody protocols and provide a water quality and water quantity baseline prior to natural gas development.

All field work is conducted by a licensed professional geologist following approved and standard protocols for field sampling, collecting, and transporting samples to the certified laboratory and all reports are reviewed and signed and sealed by a professional geologist.

A summary of the services provided by B.F. Environmental Consultants Inc. and its partners:

a. conducting baseline water quality sampling and monitoring and developing custom environmental monitoring/ assessment programs;

b. expert testimony and professional consultant services;

c. environmental education and outreach;

d. conducting environmental assessments and inventories; and

f. implementing engineering controls and engineering design.

In providing education outreach and other environmental related services, B.F. Environmental Consultants Inc. partners with a number of locally owned consulting, environmental testing laboratories, engineering firms, municipalities, planners, and local grassroots community organizations.

If you would like to learn more about this program, please visit

B.F. Environmental Consultants Community Outreach
http://www.bfenvironmental.com/natural-gas-exploration.php

Superfund Settlement in Pennsylvania- Finally !

"The largest environmental damage settlement in Pennsylvania's history will pay for the restoration of vegetation, water, and the ecosystem in and around the Palmerton Superfund site. Many of the state and federal agencies involved in the settlement will recoup some of the cost of their cleanup and other efforts over the years.
Residents of Palmerton and the towns in Lehigh, Northampton and Monroe counties affected by the contamination, however, will not share the $21.4 million to be paid by five companies."

"CBS/Westinghouse of Pa. Inc., the current owner of the site, along with CBS Operations Inc.,TCI Pacific Communications Inc., HH Liquidating Corp. and HRD Liquidating Corp., the successor companies of the zinc smelting operators that polluted the region for decades, agreed to make a cash payment of $9.875 million.
The money will be used to help pay for the restoration of the region, which was declared a Superfund site in 1983 following decades of zinc smelting by the former New Jersey Zinc Co."

"The smelting, which emitted hazardous materials including arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, manganese and zinc, contaminated nearby rivers and streams and destroyed acres of vegetation on neighboring Blue Mountain.A lawsuit brought by more than 100 Palmerton residents against the New Jersey Zinc Co. was settled in the 1990s."

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