[CPEO-BIF] Exide Battery, Fairfield, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

DEP demands plan to begin river cleanup

ANDREW BROPHY
Connecticut Post
January 90, 2008

FAIRFIELD - State environmental officials want the owner of the former 
Exide Battery plant to get the lead out when it comes to cleaning Mill 
River.

The two sides have argued for more than a year over the level of cleanup 
needed in Mill River, which was polluted with lead while the battery 
plant was operating from 1950 to 1981.

International Nickel Co. Inc., which owns the 6.25-acre property at 2190 
Post Road, next to Mill River, wants the cleanup standard to be 400 
milligrams of lead per kilogram of river sediment.

...

The Exide property can't be redeveloped until the river is dredged 
because the property is needed as a staging area for dredging equipment, 
according to town officials.
	
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_7917222

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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