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The Foote Mineral Superfund Site is not remediated.
East Whiteland Township is letting a data center be built on top of it.

Bacton Hill Road & Swedesford Road, East Whiteland Township, PA

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No Water, an Overloaded PJM Grid at 290 MW, and The Little Land Plan That Couldn’t

Newly obtained records are raising even more questions about Sentinel Green Fig’s data center plans.

A Right-to-Know request by Ginny Kerslake of Food & Water Watch, an invaluable ally to communities across the region, revealed SGF does not have the Aqua will-serve letter for the approximately 4.2 million gallons of water per day required by its approved plan. Aqua told the developer's own engineer in writing that it could not meet the requested peak demand, offering a maximum combined flow of roughly 600 gallons per minute against a request for 2,950 gpm, on a letter that by its own terms expired within a year.10 As of February 2026, what Township Solicitor Bernadette Kearney had in hand from SGF's attorney was not a signed will-serve letter but an unexecuted draft “Water Supply Agreement,” still in negotiation.11 Meanwhile, Julie Ferris uncovered records showing that when PECO submitted the proposed 290 MW load to PJM, it caused grid overloads. SGF currently has approval for only 150 MW, despite 290 MW being advertised as immediately available.

At the same time, SGF is seeking major changes to its approved land development plan, including removing the basement, relocating generators outside, and moving chillers to the roof, while attempting to process them as “field changes.”

Residents packed the August 19 Board of Supervisors meeting and demanded that East Whiteland hold the line. Senator Katie Muth was there again, continuing to stand alongside communities fighting data center development across the region.

No water approval. No 290 MW approval. And an approved land development plan SGF is now trying to substantially change.

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Foote Mineral History

What you need to know

As of August 20, 2026, this site is NOT REMEDIATED, and its “Sitewide Ready for Anticipated Use” (SWRAU) status remains revoked. EPA has stated it cannot stop development regardless.9 The site is 79 acres, not just the 12-acre "capped area." That cap isn't a separate contaminated zone, it's where the worst contamination on the entire site was concentrated and buried under clean fill.5 Groundwater lithium levels at the site's most contaminated well have been measured as high as 22,200 µg/L, over 500 times the standard EPA now uses for residential exposure.6 The site has been on the federal Superfund National Priorities List since 1992 and remains there today.7

EPA's own Superfund Checklist for Retracting the Sitewide Ready for Anticipated Use Measure for the Foote Mineral Co. site, checked to indicate the site no longer meets Human Exposure Controlled and Protective Remedy in Place or Long-Term Human Health Protection standards, citing an undefined groundwater plume and contamination discharging to surface water.

EPA Revocation of Sitewide Ready for Anticipated Use (SWRAU), stating they cannot confirm the site is protective of human health and the environment.

The fenced, capped mound at the Foote Mineral site at sunset, with pipeline and no-trespassing warning signs.

The capped area is indicated by the mound of dirt that rises approximately 12 feet in the air.

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What You Can Do

The situation is urgent and your voice matters.

Email the Board of Supervisors. Call the Governor's office. Sign the petition in person if you're a registered East Whiteland voter. It takes five minutes and it adds up.

A group of East Whiteland residents wearing 'Save East Whiteland, Stop the Data Center' shirts outside the Township building. See exactly what to do →
Sources for this page:
  1. EPA Responses to Questions for East Whiteland Township Meeting (on file), Q1–Q2; EPA Third Five-Year Review (Sept. 2024), Appendix J, Tables J-3–J-5.
  2. East Whiteland Board of Supervisors, Resolution 30-2024, Condition 2(l).
  3. Developer submissions to the Planning Commission, February and March 2026.
  4. East Whiteland SALDO § 175-8; PADEP Chapter 102 field change definition.
  5. 2006 Record of Decision, remedy description.
  6. EPA Third Five-Year Review (Sept. 2024), Table D-2, Table J-1/J-2.
  7. EPA CERCLIS / National Priorities List, 1992–present.
  8. EPA Form 9100-4, SWRAU designation revocation, Sept. 16, 2024.
  9. EPA Responses to Questions for East Whiteland Township Meeting (on file), Q3.
  10. Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc., letter from Brenda Lewandowski, New Business Manager, to Scott E. Deisher, P.E., JMR Engineering, LLC, re: Water Availability, Bacton Hill Road and E. Swedesford Road (Sept. 18, 2024).
  11. Email from Louis J. Colagreco, Jr., Riley Riper Hollin & Colagreco, to Bernadette Kearney, East Whiteland Township Solicitor, re: Water Supply Agreement – Aqua-Sentinel, draft dated 2026-02-06 (forwarded Feb. 7, 2026), obtained via Right-to-Know request.