Editor’s Note: Opposition to Elcon’s proposed hazardous wastewater treatment plant in Lower Bucks County has grown over the four years that the company has been trying to win permit approvals from the state and local governing bodies. It culminated in a public meeting Tuesday night at Pennsbury High School where parking places and seats in the school auditorium filled up early. Before the meeting opened, the fire marshall declared that the room was over capacity and ordered the doors closed. Some in a small group that didn’t make it ‘face-timed’ with friends inside. Philly.com’s Katie Park has the story.
by Katie Park, Updated: April 30, 2019- 10:34 PM
The Falls Township Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to bar a hazardous wastewater processing facility from being built in the town, for now capping a saga that has drawn thousands of residents from their homes in protest over the last five years.
Hundreds of attendees at Pennsbury High School-West’s Keller Hall rose to their feet cheering when officials delivered the land-use decision against Elcon Recycling Services after a tense, three-hour meeting that brought together a dozen township officials, lawyers for Elcon, and residents concerned about pollution the plant would bring.
Elcon, based in Israel, had overestimated how much it would financially contribute to the town and made several basic errors, such as not listing the Falls Township Fire Company as one of its main emergency contacts, said Robert Harvie, chairman of the supervisors.
“It’s been a lot of work. It was a lot of concerned people,” he said. “It’s a project that didn’t fit in our subdivision. You’re taking a square peg and putting it in a round hole.”
Related: Falls supervisors reject Elcon plan (Burlco Times)
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