[CPEO-BIF] Pompton Lakes, New Jersey residents want solutions

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents in polluted Pompton Lakes neighborhood want solutions now

BY ELAINE D’AURIZIO
The Record (NJ)
January 14, 2010

POMPTON LAKES - Get rid of the pollution, or buy me out.

That's the increasingly strident demand of residents of a 
DuPont-polluted neighborhood. And they want the Borough Council's 
support. But the residents' demand would be a radical change from the 
current status quo.

Currently, DuPont, the state, and the borough are in line with DuPont's 
program of installing venting equipment in homes threatened by toxic 
vapors rising from underground chemical pollution. Meanwhile, DuPont 
says it cannot dig out toxic subsoils because the pollution is deeply 
embedded, so it is researching ways the chemical solvents can be broken 
down.

Some 100 residents pressed their point Wednesday night before the 
Borough Council, demanding more communication from the governing body. 
And they urged DuPont, which has taken responsibility for the pollution, 
to get rid of the poisonous vapors invading homes or buy them out.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/environment/011410_Residents_in_polluted_Pompton_Lakes_neighborhood_want_solutions_now.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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