[CPEO-BIF] American Cyanamid flooding, Bridgewater, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pfizer's American Cyanamid Superfund site to release contaminated  
water into Raritan River; EPA, Sierra Club say it's safe

Benzene-leaking lagoons remain a threat

Written by Bob Makin
My Central Jersey
September. 8, 2011

BRIDGEWATER - The release of 200 million gallons of standing water  
from Pfizer’s American Cyanamid Superfund site into the adjacent  
Raritan River and its flood-connected Delaware and Raritan Canal will  
not create an environmental hazard, said Jeff Tittel, the director of  
the New Jersey chapter of Sierra Club.

...

The Edison Wetlands Association discovered the chemical leak this year.

In July, the EPA ordered Pfizer to take action to address the leak.  
Pfizer responded with the feasibility study plan.

Recent flooding is a wakeup call to the public to pressure Pfizer and  
the EPA to move more swiftly in dealing with the site, particularly  
the seeping chemical lagoons, said Robert Spiegel, the executive  
director of Edison Wetlands Association.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20110908/NJNEWS/309080047/EPA- 
safely-release-Cyanamid-floodwaters-into-Raritan-River

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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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