Full bore ahead for new animal shelter?

They are apparently getting ready to stick the shovels in the ground down in Darby Township at the site of the county’s new animal shelter.

Reporter Paul Luce was at yesterday's Animal Protection Board meeting, where they announced they are hoping for an Oct. 27 groundbreaking.

The facility is being hastily constructed as the county races against a Jan. 1 deadline – that’s already been extended once – when the SPCA plans to get out of the animal control business.

The board is awaiting the final soil testing results from Montgomery County-based Earth Engineering Inc., Upper Darby Chief Administrative Officer and board President Thomas Judge Jr. said after a board meeting Thursday.


Some local Democrats will be very interested in hearing those results as well.

The news of the groundbreaking might come as a bit of a surprise to some of the Dems who visited with our editorial board this week.

Several of them indicated they believe the site first would need a fairly expensive soil remediation project.

How expensive? Maybe in the neighborhood of $500,000.

For now we'll have to wait for the result of the soil testing.

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