[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey notification

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup ads, signage part of new DEP rule on contaminated sites


By Siobhan A. Counihan
Gloucester County News (NJ)
September 8, 2009

An influx of environmental investigation and cleanup notices running in 
the newspapers, including this one, is the result of a new notification 
rule enacted last year, according to state Department of Environmental 
Protection officials.

The notices have been appearing en masse in local newspapers and detail 
the type of remediation action taking place at contaminated sites.

"What you're seeing is a new community outreach effort on the part of 
the DEP to make sure that people in the community are aware of 
contaminated sites and progress on cleanups," said state DEP spokesman 
Lawrence Hajna.

The notices range from sites as large as the Valero Refining Co. in 
Greenwich Township, where a comprehensive groundwater extraction system 
has been installed to address potential groundwater contamination of 
petroleum hydrocarbons, down to the former Mullica Hill Gas Stop, where 
a leaking underground storage tank and septic system caused contamination.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/gloucester/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1252386615104500.xml&coll=8

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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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