EPA Performs Soil Gas Sampling Starting This Week In Hatboro

HATBORO, PA — Local officials are telling residents to expect to see personnel with the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the community this week as crews begin conducting passive soil gas sampling.

Hatboro officials said federal environmental crews would be in the community beginning Monday to perform the soil gas sampling within rights-of-way in the borough, specifically in the area of Bonair Avenue.

Residents were told they would likely see EPA workers utilizing hand-held drills to create shallow boreholes at certain spots, with small sample collection devices placed into the boreholes and then sealed over.

Two weeks after the holes are drills and the collection devices are inserted, federal workers will be returning to the sites to remove the collected samples, according to the borough.

Officials said that all of the boreholes that are created will be repaired at the time of the sample retrieval.

Soil gas sampling is a process used to measure levels of certain contaminants within the soil.

Hatboro officials said the soil gas testing in the community would last until about Aug. 8.