[CPEO-BIF] Proposed DuPont permit change at Pompton Lakes, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents skeptical of DuPont's bid for permit change in Pompton Lakes 
cleanup

BY JAMES M. O'NEILL
The Record (NJ)
August 6, 2010

DuPont has asked the state to alter a key permit for its cleanup of 
contaminated groundwater in Pompton Lakes, a move that some residents 
and environmentalists say could reduce the public's oversight of 
DuPont's cleanup efforts.

The permit is tied to a pump-and-treat system that DuPont installed in 
1998 to remove the toxic solvents PCE and TCE from groundwater under the 
company's property and halt its spread as a contaminated groundwater 
plume under neighboring homes.

The solvents have been linked in studies to certain cancers, and last 
winter a state study found elevated levels of those cancers among 
residents in the neighborhood above the contaminated groundwater plume, 
though the state could not conclusively link the higher levels to the plume.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/100098424_DuPont_bid_to_alter_permit_alarms_residents.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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