2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 25 Mar 2006 18:07:24 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] New Jersey - PCB-tainted concrete from Ford
 
EWA faults state for PCB-tainted concrete

BY JOHN DUNPHY
Brick Township Bulletin (NJ)
March 23, 2006

EDISON - While state Department of Environmental Protection officials have mobilized to find out why tainted concrete left the Ford site, Edison Wetlands Association's Executive Director Robert Spiegel said the agency is partly to blame.

"In the rush to redevelop the approximately 10,000 brownfield sites estimated to be in New Jersey, the NJDEP and other agencies have been systematically weakening cleanup requirements and creating loopholes in the redevelopment process, allowing contaminated properties to be redeveloped without being properly cleaned up," Spiegel said in a March 8 letter to Gov. Jon Corzine.

Spiegel wants a task force assembled of municipal leaders, environmental groups and health officials to "independently review the circumstances that led to this situation, as well as the risks posed by current brownfield legislation and cleanup regulations in New Jersey."

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For the entire article, see
http://bulletin.gmnews.com/news/2006/0323/Front_Page/007.html

For links to more articles on this subject, go to
http://www.edisonwetlands.org/ and scroll down.

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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> http://www.cpeo.org


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