UNION TOWNSHIP PA – UGI Utilities Inc., in a public notice published Friday (March 14, 2025), says it intends to further remediate property at 959 E. Main St., Birdsboro, within the township. The location is the site of the former Birdsboro Manufactured Gas Plant, where several potentially dangerous substances have been identified.
UGI is a natural gas and electric utility headquartered in Denver PA, which is said to serve 700,000 customers in 45 Pennsylvania counties. It reports it notified the state Department of Environmental Protection of its plans. A start date was not mentioned.
The land and groundwater at the site will cleaned to what the state labels as a “statewide health standard for residential use,” the notice states. Proposed future uses for the property will remain residential and commercial, the company adds.
The company’s notice states environmental investigations “identified the presence of antimony, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, nickel, selenium, thallium, zinc, several polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and several volatile organic compounds” in the soil. They also found several polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in groundwater at the site, it adds.
Public Comment Allowed
A soil remediation effort during September 2022 consisted of excavating, and off-site disposal, of affected soil, UGI notes.
Members of the public may comment on the UGI proposed remediation. Comments may be mailed to:
- Ryan Carr, PG, at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Southcentral Regional Office, 909 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg PA 17110; and
- Gordon Araujo, at UGI Utilities Inc., 1 UGI Dr., Denver PA 17517.
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