[CPEO-BIF] DuPont Pompton Lakes (New Jersey) cleanup permit

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

NJDEP extends comment period for new DuPont permit

Suburban Trends (NJ)
August 15, 2010

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) will 
extend the comment period for a new permit DuPont must get for the 
ongoing cleanup of its contaminated site in the borough.

This comment period was extended after an environmental group called the 
Pompton Lakes Residents for Environmental Integrity (PLREI) requested 
that DuPont and the NJDEP explain what this new permit is all about. 
Residents want to keep strict watch over DuPont during the cleanup 
because toxic vapors from groundwater have been extending into their 
neighborhoods.

A public notice was published in the July 25 edition of the Suburban 
Trends, notifying the community that DuPont is applying for a new permit 
for the onsite groundwater pump-and-treat system in operation on its 
property that keeps volatile organic compounds from migrating off the site.

This new permit would require DuPont to report to the NJDEP less 
frequently on the pump-and-treat system.

At the Aug. 11 Borough Council meeting, Citizens for a Clean Pompton 
Lakes founder Lisa Riggiola told council members they should be 
concerned about this change, because its approval would mean less 
oversight on the cleanup.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/100742629_NJ_extends_time_to_comment_on_DuPont_permit_.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
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