[CPEO-BIF] General Dynamics, Woodbridge, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Firm confident former General Dynamics site safe
Toxins found near three property lines, but said to be no threat to
residents

BY KATHY CHANG
Woodbridge Sentinel (NJ)
December 5, 2007

After preliminary testing, only the borders of three residential
property lines - two on Lehigh Avenue and one on Dartmouth Avenue - have
been found to contain lead, arsenic, and base neutral compounds in the
Avenel section of the township.

"We have a great deal of confidence, and there is no real concern that
these [metals] will migrate into these properties," said Jeffrey Kozic,
geo-environmental project manager for Birdsall Engineering Inc., based
in Eatontown, whose company was hired as an independent environmental
engineering company for the township.

...

McCormac said the township Planning Board would hold a hearing Dec. 12
at town hall to decide if the 27.54-acre property in Avenel should be a
redevelopment area.

...

For the entire article, see
http://ws.gmnews.com/news/2007/1205/Front_Page/002.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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