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Chester residents and environmental groups press DEP to require VOC monitoring, stronger controls at Delcora incinerator
Summary
At a Pennsylvania DEP hearing in Chester, residents and environmental groups urged the agency to require Delcora to install the best available control technologies and continuous VOC monitoring, citing long-running pollution, elevated local cancer and asthma rates, and limited community notice.
At a public hearing hosted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in Chester, residents, local advocates and environmental groups urged the agency to require tougher pollution controls and air monitoring for the Delcora sewage- and industrial-waste incinerator.
Speakers including Lauren Minsky and representatives of the Clean Air Council and the Delaware Riverkeeper Network told DEP staff the facility contributes to an exceptional cumulative pollution burden in southeastern Delaware County. Minsky cited cancer-rate comparisons she said cover 2002–2021 and told the hearing the area has ‘‘79% higher than the Pennsylvania average for liver and bowel cancer’’ among adults and higher childhood cancer…
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