In local business news, Toll Brothers says it intends to remediate pollution at a Phoenixville property as the next step in building residential housing there. H&K Group Inc. has applied to renew a state permit needed for its quarry in Sanatoga.
Toll Plans Phoenixville Site Pollution Remediation
PHOENIXVILLE PA – A unit of Toll Brothers, the nationally known home and apartment builder, is asking for Pennsylvania’s permission to remove and dispose of some polluted soils and ground water on land it owns at 100 School Ln. and 41 Second Ave.
The 7.3-acre property was once home to a former kindergarten center of the Phoenxville Area School District. The district’s school board voted in March 2022 to sell the land to Toll for $4.6 million. Toll says it intends to build residential housing there.
The company on Friday (Feb. 7, 2025) published a legal notice of its “intent to remediate” the site. It explains the property was earlier occupied by a variety of manufacturers through the 1990s. Industrial compounds stored, handled, or used there created pollution impacts, the notice reports.
In addition to removing some material, the notice says the company also would establish “applicable engineering and institutional controls” to eliminate “the compounds of concern” in the future.
Toll reports it will conduct a “site-specific” remediation of the property to meet state standards. Publication of the legal notice gives the public a 30-day window to comment on Toll’s plans.
It also allows Phoenixville Borough, if it desires, to be “involved” in the remediation and site use. The borough also can “develop and implement a public involvement plan,” according to the notice.
For more information, the notice states, contact state Environmental Cleanup and Brownfields Program Manager C. David Brown at the state Department of Environmental Protection, 2 E. Main St., Norristown, by phone at 484-250-5792 or by e-mail at cdbrown@pa.gov.
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H&K Looks to Continue Sanatoga Quarry Operations
SANATOGA PA – H&K Group Inc. of Skippack, a multi-state contractor that also sells construction and building materials, looks to again extend its decades-long mining operations at the Sanatoga Quarry.
The company during February 2025 is publishing a legal notice that announces it wants to continue control of water run-off at the site, 394 S. Sanatoga Rd. Technically it is applying to renew, for another 5 years, its Pennsylvania-required National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for non-coal surface mining there.
Its notice says the application makes no changes to the quarry’s water discharge point, Sanatoga Creek. The creek is classified as a warm watery fishery. It empties into the nearby Schuylkill River.
More information about the permit is available by writing or visiting the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Pottsville District Mining Office, 5 W. Laurel Blvd., Pottsville PA; by calling 570-621-3118; or by sending an e-mail to RA-EPPOTTSVILLEDMO@pa.gov. Public objections to the application also can be filed there, by its March 30 deadline.
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