[CPEO-BIF] Upper Ringwood Superfund site, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Upper Ringwood group hires experts in push for cleanup of old Ford dump

BY MARY JO LAYTON
Bergen Record (NJ)
January 25, 2011

In their quest for the most aggressive cleanup at a Superfund site in 
Upper Ringwood, a community group has hired experts with a $50,000 
federal grant to determine the best way to address remaining 
contamination left by Ford Motor Co. more than 40 years ago.

Ford's experts are drafting options to handle contamination in three 
major disposal areas and in groundwater, final remedies that must be 
approved by state and federal environmental agencies with input from the 
community.

The choice of a cleanup plan is a decision that could affect the region 
for decades. Besides the threat to the Upper Ringwood community, 
environmentalists worry what impact remaining pollution will have in a 
watershed that serves 2.5 million North Jersey residents.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/114532879_Experts_to_assess_Ford_site_cleanup.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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