[CPEO-BIF] Jersey City, New Jersey chromium cleanups

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Jersey City Residents React to Chromium Cleanup Plans and Progress on  
Garfield Avenue and at Berry Lane Park

By Meg Heery
Jersey City Independent
November 2, 2011

A small but concerned group of about 30 residents appeared last night  
at a public meeting of the Chromium Cleanup Partnership (CCP) to hear  
an eight-member panel give its update on the progress and plans to  
remove waste from a 16-acre site at 900 Garfield Avenue and the  
nearby Berry Lane Park project.

Officials from the city, the Department of Environmental Protection  
(DEP) and PPG Industries anticipated residents’ concerns about the  
project timeline, contaminant runoff from Hurricane Irene and other  
recent storms, potential health hazards and job creation.

In his opening remarks, Mayor Jerramiah Healy said that 72,800 tons  
of “green-gray mud,” soil contaminated with hexavalent chromium, had  
been removed from the Garfield Avenue site since excavation began  
there in July 2010. The second phase of the work is set to begin in  
January.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2011/11/02/jersey-city-residents- 
react-to-chromium-cleanup-plans-and-progress-on-garfield-avenue-and- 
at-berry-lane-park/

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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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