[CPEO-BIF] J.S. Popper site and Memorial School, Little Ferry, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Little Ferry school tested for possible contamination

BY KARTHIK AGGARWAL
LITTLE FERRY LOCAL
MARCH 14, 2012


LITTLE FERRY - The state's Department of Environmental Protection  
(DEP) has required that the Memorial School be monitored and tested  
due to ground water contamination at the J.S. Popper site on Liberty  
Street. Two monitoring wells were installed at the school in late  
February for underground water sampling. The sampling was conducted  
March 8.

"If there's a problem here, I want to know what it is and how to  
remediate it. Testing the samples will answer the questions being put  
forward," said Superintendent Frank Scarafile.

Environmental Waste Management Associates (EWMA), an environmental  
consulting and remediation firm, is conducting the testing on behalf  
of J.S. Popper Inc.

The J.S. Popper site, located at 200 Liberty St., has the solvent  
trichloroethylene, or TCE, in both soil under the building and in  
ground water ...



For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/ 
142639896_Memorial_School_tested_for_possible_contamination.html

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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
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