Bellevue Meeting to Focus on Air Pollution from Shenango Coke Works

Representatives of the Allegheny County Health Department’s (ACHD) Air Quality Division will attend a community meeting at 6 p.m. tonight in Bellevue regarding a Neville Island coke works plant.

Attendees will receive an update on the current against Shenango, Inc., an industry on Neville Island that in August .

The fine was issued in response to 114 violations since the beginning of 2011.

The meeting will take place in the Bellevue Borough Building, 537 Bayne Ave. and was organized to address the concerns of residents living near Neville Island.

the pollution from Shenango, Inc. is having on their health, and the health of their children.

A recent report showed Northgate School District in Bellevue and Avalon, communities located right across the river from Neville Island, has an Asthma rate of 37.6 percent of all students. This is the highest asthma rate of any school district in Western Pennsylvania.

Meeting attendees will have ample opportunity to ask questions of ACHD representatives after a brief presentation.