[CPEO-BIF] Hopewell (NJ) TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Note: This is a different location than Hopewell Junction, which is in 
New York state. - LS]

Tainted water project begins in Hopewell

By Aleen Crispino
Hopewell Valley News (NJ)
August 10, 2006

An environmental engineering firm hired to clean up groundwater 
contamination at the former Rockwell/Kooltronic site on Hamilton Avenue 
has begun monitoring the air quality in Lafayette and Somerset street 
residences, looking for possible unsafe levels of chemicals released 
during the process of digging wells, said Councilman David Mackie at the 
Hopewell Borough Council meeting Monday.

Blasland, Bouck and Lee (BBL) of Cranbury was hired by Rockwell 
Automation of Milwaukee, Wis., to conduct the remediation effort. It has 
begun digging wells as the first step in what will be an ongoing project 
to pump out and treat "two groundwater contaminant plumes" at the site, 
said Mr. Mackie, responding to concerns voiced at the Monday meeting by 
a neighborhood resident.

The resident, who declined to give her name or address, said, "They're 
going to put up a filtration plant next to my house." She said she had 
placed her house on the market and that three buyers who were previously 
interested dropped out when she disclosed the air quality problems.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17034029&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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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