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Residents urge township to block SPS Technologies rebuild after major factory fire; cite EPA action and health concerns
Summary
Multiple Abington residents used the Sept. 11 public-comment period to oppose SPS Technologies' plans to rebuild after a large fire, citing prior EPA enforcement, alleged contamination and worries about air and water quality and neighborhood safety.
Several Abington residents during public comment on Sept. 11 urged the Board of Commissioners to oppose or block SPS Technologies' planned rebuilding at the site of a major factory fire, citing health, environmental and transparency concerns.
Anne Negolitas, a longtime Abington resident, said the factory fire was "one of the biggest in Montgomery County's history," described evacuations that kept her family from their home for three days and said the EPA found elevated arsenic levels in the Tukonee Creek near the site. Negolitas also cited an agenda-referenced consent agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from Feb. 2023 and an associated payment she quoted as $109,805 to resolve hazardous-waste storage and disposal violations that she said…
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