[CPEO-BIF] Chromium Contamination, Garfield, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Feds Recommend Superfund for Garfield Chromium Contamination
Saturday,

BY ALEXANDER MACINNES
The Record (NJ)
October 2, 2010

GARFIELD - The level of cancer-causing chemicals in parts of the city's 
groundwater is so high that a federal agency is recommending 
contaminated areas be categorized as a Superfund site, according to a 
letter to the Environmental Protection Agency.

That recommendation by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease 
Registry was made the day before the agency issued a rare health warning 
for residents near the intersection of Midland Avenue and Grand Street 
to stay out of their basements because of high levels of hexavalent 
chromium.

"We consider the site a serious threat to human health under exposure 
scenarios related to the infiltration of groundwater contaminated with 
hexavalent chromium," wrote Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the ATSDR, 
in a Wednesday letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

Officials are focusing on several blocks beginning near the intersection 
of Midland Avenue and Grand Street — where high concentrations of 
hexavalent chromium were discovered in testing in homes — and stretching 
westward toward the Passaic River.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/104197164_Superfund_tag_in_chromium_mess_.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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