[CPEO-BIF] Pompton Lakes (NJ) mitigation survey

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Environmental CAG to survey in-Plume residents

BY LESLIE SCOTT
SUBURBAN TRENDS (NJ)
JULY 17, 2011

The Pompton Lakes Works Site Environmental Community Advisory Group  
(CAG) will perform a door-to-door survey to determine why some  
residents have not gotten a vapor mitigation system installed.

It was in the spring of 2008 when DuPont and the New Jersey  
Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced that high  
levels of tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene (TCE) vapors  
were being emitted into homes in a section of the borough called the  
Plume.

The vapors were emanating from the groundwater that was contaminated  
when DuPont operated a munitions factory in the borough from 1902 to  
1994.

When this was announced in 2008, DuPont had already developed plans  
that would provide each property in the Plume with a vapor mitigation  
system that would remove these vapors from the property.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/125727893_CAG_to_canvass_Plume- 
area_owners_about_vapor_systems_.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, 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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