[CPEO-BIF] Elizabeth (NJ) Public School No. 30

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State sues over cleanup costs at polluted school site
Attorney general calls action over Elizabeth parcel the first of many

BY RICK HEPP
Newark Star-Ledger (NJ)
December 12, 2006

In an offensive aimed at recouping millions of dollars it spent to clean 
contaminated land purchased for school construction, the state yesterday 
fired its first shot by suing a gasoline company over pollution at the 
site of Elizabeth Public School No. 30.

The Attorney General's Office filed a lawsuit in Union County demanding 
that Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. and Power Test Realty reimburse the 
state $885,000 for the remediation of hazardous substances found on the 
construction site. The lawsuit said the pollution was left behind by a 
Getty service station that had occupied part of the site.

The Schools Construction Corp., a state authority that built the 
Elizabeth school on Pennsylvania Avenue, acquired the service station 
property and a neighboring parcel in October 2003 through eminent 
domain. Testing samples later showed both parcels were polluted with 
hazardous substances associated with the station, the lawsuit said.

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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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