[CPEO-BIF] Mansfield Trail Dump Site, Byram, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Byram cleanup to take five years


By LYNDSAY CAYETANA BOUCHAL
New Jersey Herald
April 12, 2011

BYRAM -- The groundwater cleanup for the 17 township homes  
contaminated by the Mansfield Trail Dump Site, recently named a  
national Superfund site, won't begin for at least five years, said  
Environmental Protection Agency Project Manager Kristin Giacalone.

"I just want it to start," said Brookwood Road resident Donna Griff,  
whose home is among one of the contaminated.

...

In 2009, the 17 residential wells on Brookwood Road and Ross Road in  
Byram were found to be contaminated with tricloroethylene, a volatile  
organic compound used as an extraction solvent, adhesive and general  
anesthetic. Chemical vapors from contaminated soil underneath some of  
these houses additionally seeped into the homes' basements.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.njherald.com/story/news/041210DUMPSITEUPDATE-clone


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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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