[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey - PCB-tainted concrete from Ford

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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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