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Sunoco Pipeline’s plans to cut Mariner East through a Delco apartment complex arouses protests

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Sunoco Pipeline’s plans to cut its contentious Mariner East pipeline project through the middle of a Delaware County apartment complex has aroused protests from the complex owner, who says the company’s plan raises unresolved safety issues.

Stephen A. Iacobucci, managing director of the family-owned Glen Riddle Station Apartments in Middletown Township, says Sunoco only told him last week that it was moving forward in several days with plans to cleave the 124-unit complex with the pipelines, including the erection of 30-foot sound walls within a few feet of some buildings. The walls are to be temporary, coming down after construction is finished in four months.

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