[CPEO-BIF] Former Rockwell site, Hopewell, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contamination at Hamilton Avenue site is Hopewell topic

By Aleen Crispino
Hopewell Valley News (NJ)
July 20, 2006

HOPEWELL BOROUGH PLANNING UPDATE

Hopewell Borough Planning Board heard an informal presentation July 5 of 
a plan by an environmental engineering firm to pump out and treat 
contaminated groundwater at the former Rockwell Manufacturing/Kooltronic 
site on Hamilton Avenue.

John Persico, an associate at Blasland, Bouck and Lee (BBL) of Cranbury, 
said his firm was hired by Rockwell Automation, now of Milwaukee, Wis., 
which operated the site as Rockwell Manufacturing Co. from the early 
1900s to 1975.

The Rockwell/Kooltronic property on Hamilton Ave. is bordered on the 
north by Somerset Street and on the south by Lafayette Street. The main 
building at 57 Hamilton Ave. has been converted to office space and is 
currently occupied by several businesses.

...

NJDEP tests in 2000 found that wells in the 16-home King's Path 
development, just outside the borough in Hopewell Township, contained 
levels of TCE and tetrachloroethylene – also known as perchloroethylene 
or PCE, another volatile organic compound used to degrease metals – 
exceeding the agency's New Jersey Drinking Water Standards.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16941329&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=425744&rfi=6

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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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