[CPEO-BIF] Ford's PCB dump in North Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ringwood Ford dump still holds toxic PCBs

By BARBARA WILLIAMS and JAN BARRY
NorthJersey.com
December 16, 2004

RINGWOOD - Cancer-causing PCBs are among the waste that remains at a 
former Ford dump in the hills above the Wanaque Reservoir, a federal 
environmental official confirmed Wednesday.

The statement by cleanup project manager Joe Gowers followed a former 
federal Superfund official's report that Ford's inadequate initial 
cleanup left a health threat to residents that is one of the most severe 
in the nation.

Also Wednesday, a manager of the Wanaque Reservoir system, which serves 
2 million North Jersey residents, said PCBs periodically showed up in 
tests during the 1990s of streams that originate in the dump site.

The disclosure that Ford consultants found high levels of PCBs during 
the original cleanup, which ended in 1994, was made by Bruce Molholt, a 
toxicologist who previously worked for the Environmental Protection 
Agency. Molholt, hired as a consultant to attorneys for area residents, 
reported the findings to residents and environmental and health 
investigators Monday.

A cleanup project is under way to remove mounds of lead-based paint 
sludge from woodlands, including a section of Ringwood State Park, as 
well as residential lawns. Renewed government inspection of the site was 
prompted by discovery of residual sludge and by unexplained health 
problems, ranging from cancer to asthma and skin rashes among the 
resident Ramapough Mountain Indian community, although there is no 
definite proof they are linked.

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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