Credit: Jeff Bohen LevittownNow.com
That mountain of dirt piled as high as you can see at Snyder Girotti Elementary School since 2007 is a goner according to Bristol Borough School District Officials.
The district was awarded a 1 million dollar grant for mediation of the boron laced dirt sitting at the end of Buckley Street. The grant, according to officials, involves a 25 percent match – $250,000 by the district.
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The projected cost of the project could come in around 1.4 million dollars with the school district having to make up the remaining cost utilizing the fund balance, officials said.
Bids for the project will go out next week and are expected to come in early January, after the board has reconfigured itself.
The grant, applied for by the Bucks County Redevelopment Authority, comes from the Department of Community and Economic Development allocation.
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The dire pile contaminated with Boron- an industrial chemical used in fiberglass insulation, sodium perborate bleach and rockets as an ignition source, has been a source of friction in the community for approximately six years.
Recently several residents contacted LevittownNow.com complaining of the “eyesore” and the process involved in getting rid of it as well as concerns about children being exposed to the chemical.
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Plans for removal – or actually the spreading out of the boron infected dirt pile- will begin sometime in late January or early February, officials said.
