Asbestos Removal · Washington County
Peters Township is one of Washington County's thirteen original townships (1781) and grew from 3,004 residents in 1950 to 22,946 at the 2020 census. Because it is outside Allegheny County, asbestos here is regulated by PA DEP, not the Allegheny County Health Department, and its homes are the newest of these areas, with a median build year of 1983.
Peters Township is in Washington County, and that one fact changes who regulates asbestos work. The Allegheny County Health Department's Article XXI, its asbestos permits and its contractor licence stop at the county line. Here the regulator is the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's Southwest Regional Office, enforcing the federal asbestos rule. DEP says it does not regulate asbestos removal from private residences unless the building is an apartment with five or more units, and it points homeowners to their township for any local rules.
Peters is one of Washington County's original townships, dating from 1781, and it stayed rural for a long time: it had 3,004 residents in 1950 and 22,946 at the 2020 census. Census estimates put its median home at 1983, the newest of any area we cover, and 90 percent of homes are detached single-family houses. Still, about 47 percent were built before 1980, including 14 percent from the 1950s when McMurray and Venetia were small settlements among farms. Those older houses, and the farmhouses that predate them, are where floor tile, pipe insulation and textured ceilings are worth testing.
With only about 2 percent of homes in buildings of five or more units, almost every job in Peters is an owner-occupied house that falls outside DEP's rules. Pennsylvania's asbestos certification law still applies in any building, private homes included. Anyone you hire to do asbestos work must be certified by the Department of Labor and Industry, removal workers must work for a certified contractor, and the contractor must file notice at least five days before friable work over three square or three linear feet. Commercial buildings along Washington Road are DEP facilities and need an inspection and, above the thresholds, 10 working days' notice to DEP and EPA.
Peters is 30 to 40 minutes south of downtown by Route 19 or I-79, with East McMurray Road, Venetia Road and Valley Brook Road connecting its subdivisions. Typical jobs here are testing in older houses before a sale or remodel and cement siding on the area's older farmhouses and outbuildings.
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