There are plots of land across the country that have been devastated by hazardous waste of one form or another. Sometimes the waste was not disposed of properly, sometimes it was just how a particular product was manufactured at the time.  Two such sites in Montgomery County were identified long ago, and now they’re ever so close to being ripe for new development.

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Occupying 32 acres in Ambler Borough and Whitpain and Upper Dublin Townships in Montgomery County, BoRit contains a six-acre, 25-foot-high tomb for asbestos off Wissahickon and Prophecy creeks that has been capped. The site comprises three parcels, one of which is now a reservoir used as a waterfowl preserve, a potential park, and the asbestos pile, writes Frank Kummer for philly.com. 

Crater Resources is occupying 50 acres in Upper Merion, Montgomery County, the site was used from 1919 through 1980 by Alan Wood Steel Company and Keystone Coke Company, which dumped waste from coke production in quarries. Remediation started in 2009 and is ongoing, but a portion of the site already holds Renaissance Park, an office development. Recently, the the EPA modified a cleanup plan to allow homes to be built elsewhere on the site.

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