[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey outsourcing

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

New Jersey DEP hopes outsourcing will speed up cleanups

By MICHAEL MILLER
Press of Atlantic City (NJ)
January 9, 2010 |

The doors and windows to the nondescript salmon-colored building in 
Franklin Township are boarded up - just another abandoned property in a 
state that, since the recession, has been increasingly full of them. 
Apart from its imposing but temporary fence, nobody would guess this 
cinder block building no bigger than a ranch home stirred one of New 
Jersey's biggest environmental outrages of the past decade.

The state is knocking down the former Kiddie Kollege in Gloucester 
County, a day care center that opened in a contaminated former 
thermometer company, exposing more than 100 children in southern New 
Jersey to toxic mercury vapors before the disastrous conversion was 
discovered in 2006.

But in a state with more than 20,000 polluted sites - the equivalent of 
nearly three sites for every square mile - similar mistakes seem 
inevitable. Some of those sites have been neglected for decades.

In response, the state in the past two years has revamped the way it 
addresses pollution.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/watch-dog-report/article_0e2e9fa0-fd8c-11de-90c7-001cc4c002e0.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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