[CPEO-BIF] Jersey City chromium

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chromium contamination disaster of epic proportions 

By TOM MORAN
NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE 
Jersey Journal
May 9, 2005

The Rev. John McReynolds suspected that something was amiss when the
rainwater running down the gutter near his Jersey City home turned
green. 

"It looked like Mountain Dew," he says. "You got used to it. Nobody
acted like it was important." 

He knows now that this green stuff was a curse. 

Not one sent by a vengeful God. This was planted in his hometown by
three large corporations that left giant mounds of cancer-causing
chromium sitting on their properties for half a century. 

Kids played army on those toxic mountains in the summer, and went
sledding on them in the winter. They splashed their bare feet in the
green waters. 


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1115633729109460.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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