The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has included a contaminated area of Nockamixon to the state’s Priority List of Hazardous Sites for Remedial Response. The Bucks County Health Department first notified the DEP of trichloroethylene groundwater contamination on properties along Brennan Road in 2009. A former farm, the 77 acres along Brennan Road was reportedly used by its owner to dispose of drummed and bulk liquid industrial waste before the property was subdivided into nine parcels in 1978. The DEP has already been working to improve conditions of the Superfund site by installing protection measures at homes impacted by the contamination, an agency news release said that the designation will allow the agency to “remediate contamination at the source.”
Source: Bucks County Courier Times; 1/30/2025