[CPEO-BIF] Pohatcong Valley Superfund Site (NJ)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA claims companies caused contamination 

By SARA LEITCH
Easton Express-Times (PA)
April 1, 2005

WHITE TWP. -- The Environmental Protection Agency has identified three
companies as the sources of industrial solvents that have contaminated
groundwater from Washington to Franklin Township, officials said
Thursday. 

The EPA plans to ask those companies to help pay for work to clean up
the Pohatcong Valley Superfund Site, officials said during a meeting
organized by the Warren County Environmental Commission. A plan for the
work should be ready by this fall, they said. 

"Whenever possible, we try to get the responsible parties to pay and do
the cleanup," said Kimberly O'Connell, the chief of remediation for
southern New Jersey. 

...

The environmental commission has hoped to use the superfund status as a
way to limit development in the Pohatcong Valley, which was designated a
planning area by the Highlands Act. 

The act aims to protect groundwater by confining growth to certain
areas. But commission members argued that development in the valley
could hurt efforts to study and remove the contamination. 

But the EPA representatives said they could work around whatever effect
new buildings had on the groundwater, and that it was up to local
officials to take a stand on development. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/nj/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1112349935102050.xml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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