[CPEO-BIF] Pompton Lakes (NJ) residents want Superfund

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Pompton Lakes residents' group: Federal takeover needed in DuPont 
pollution case


BY ANDREA ALEXANDER
The Record (NJ)
December 16, 2009


POMPTON LAKES - One by one, residents of a pollution-threatened 
neighborhood told state health officials about the cancers they were 
being treated for, or a relative was suffering from, or the tumor that 
killed their neighbor.

And many of the more than 500 people packing the high school auditorium 
Tuesday night vented frustrations a week after the state Health 
Department released a finding that kidney cancer rates in women and 
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma rates in men are significantly elevated in the 
neighborhood, where toxic chemical vapors are rising through the soil.

...

Several residents also said they wanted federal officials to take 
authority over the cleanup of groundwater contaminated with solvents 
from a closed DuPont munitions factory. Also, immediately before the 
meeting, the residents' group Citizens for a Clean Pompton Lakes 
released a 10-point plan for dealing with the contamination. It called 
for listing the DuPont works site on the National Priority Superfund 
list. The citizens group released its proposal in concert with Edison 
Wetlands Association, an environmental advocacy organization.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/121509_Pompton_Lakes_residents_group_Federal_takeover_needed_in_DuPont_pollution_case.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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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