[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey court upholds water standards

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Court upholds clean water standards for brownfields remediation

Associated Press
Long Island Newsday
February 28, 2006

TRENTON, N.J. -- The state Supreme Court let stand the state's 
clean-water standards for rehabilitated "brownfields" sites Tuesday, 
rejecting an assertion that they have undermined the cleanup of 
contaminated lands by being so strict.

In a unanimous one-paragraph opinion, the Court upheld an Appellate 
Division ruling that said Department of Environmental Protection water 
purity standards for the sites do not violate the 1997 Brownfield Act, 
as the state Chamber of Commerce and Federal Pacific Electric Co. contended.

The act was passed in a bid to spur cleanup and development of land that 
had been used for industrial purposes or was tainted by hazardous 
materials. In 2002, the DEP enacted regulations to enforce the act that 
said surface and groundwater at the remediated sites had to be _ 
eventually _ safe to drink.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--sconj-waterpollut0228feb28,0,7826537.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey

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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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