[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey Superfund problems

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

North Jersey Superfund cleanups plagued by errors, cutbacks

BY SCOTT FALLON
The Record (NJ)
October 11, 2010

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the Toxic Landscape series

If you've turned on a faucet in Fair Lawn any time since 1987, some of 
your water has been pumped through a tank at the water department where 
it is blasted with air to remove chemicals that could make you very sick.

Trichloroethylene, chloroform and a cocktail of other volatile organic 
compounds have to be taken out of water drawn from two wells in the 
western part of the borough that have been contaminated for at least 32 
years - and have been on the federal Superfund list for 27.

The treated drinking water is considered safe, but the groundwater 
remains polluted. And now scientists are investigating a new concern at 
the site near the Route 208 Industrial Park: Toxic chemicals may be 
rising up through the ground and contaminating nearby homes and businesses.

When the area became a federal Superfund site in 1983, residents thought 
there would be a cleanup that would quickly resolve their health 
concerns. Now, they wonder if the designation helped at all.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/environment/101010_North_Jersey_Superfund_cleanups_plagued_by_errors_cutbacks.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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