[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey Zinc smelter, DePue, Illinois

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

2,000 petitions ask for quicker Superfund cleanup

By Goldie Currie

LaSalle News Tribune
March 2, 2011

About 2,000 petitions have been signed in support of the village of  
DePue's push for quicker cleanup and removal of hazardous waste in  
the village, within the federal Superfund site and in the sediments  
of Lake DePue.

According to village president Eric Bryant the petition drive has  
been going well and the village has been receiving signed petitions  
from all over the country.

...

Editor’s note: The entire former New Jersey Zinc smelter, a 150-yard- 
long slag heap, a "gypsum stack" north of Route 29, the "south ditch"  
leading from smelter site to Lake DePue all are part of the U.S.  
Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site. Village officials  
contend that the cleanup process needs to be expedited by the IEPA,  
U.S.. EPA and potentially responsible parties including Exxon-Mobil  
and CBS and that the cleanup has not been nearly as comprehensive as  
they believe is necessary.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newstrib.com/articles/news/nci/default.asp? 
article=26259&aname=2,000+petitions+ask+for+quicker+Superfund+cleanup

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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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