Community Fact Sheet : Lehigh Gap Site Slope Stabilization Project Update
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Resource ID
1111
Access
Open
Contributed by
Appalachian Trail Museum Library
Date
May 2010
Tags - Places
Pennsylvania
Trail Town name
Palmerton
Document Types
Federal, Report
Document Extract
As part of the larger work "under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, also known as Superfund) to abate the ongoing migration of contaminated soil and water from the Site, abate the threat to public safety from a potential rockfall at the Site, and ensure the long-term success of future revegetation efforts for the Site planned in the context of the Palmerton Zinc Pile National Priorities List (NPL) Site remedial action. Starting in June 2010, and proceeding through approximately April 2011, contractors will be on-site to implement the Lehigh Gap project using a variety of engineering techniques such as installation of gabions, rock bolts, shotcrete buttresses, drapes, and fences."