[CPEO-BIF] Somerville, New Jersey landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Somerville moving forward on landfill work

By MARTIN C. BRICKETTO
mycentraljersey.com
April 6, 2010

The borough hopes to submit part of a clean-up plan for its former 
municipal landfill later this year.

"It allows us to start work on remediation in and around the green seam 
straight away; it adds value to the property and adds confidence that 
we're serious about doing what we're doing," Colin Driver, the borough's 
director of economic development, said Tuesday.

The remedial action work plan that could go to the state Department of 
Environmental Protection (DEP) as soon as October is expected to 
describe how a 40-acre area of wetlands and stream area known as the 
"green seam" should be cleaned up and also outline how other areas could 
be remediated as well.

Driver said the plan's submittal would be aided by filing information 
related to an investigation of bedrock-level contamination separately.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20100406/NEWS/4060346/-1/newsfront/Somerville-moving-forward-on-landfill-work

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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
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