[CPEO-BIF] Pembroke Associates solvent site, Egg Harbor City, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Officials trying to determine extent of soil contamination in Egg  
Harbor City

By LEE PROCIDA
Press of Atlantic City (NJ)
April 1, 2012

EGG HARBOR CITY - In some ways, this little community wishes it could  
regain the glory it once had as a bustling hub of South Jersey.
In other ways, the city is haunted by its industrial past.

The government is currently investigating the extent of soil  
contamination at the corner of Atlantic and Buffalo avenues, where a  
long-gone clothing production operation dumped dry-cleaning chemicals  
in the '60s and '70s.

The state has directed the current property owner, Pembroke  
Associates, to pay more than $1 million for the site’s remediation,  
but Pembroke filed a suit in February against the city and individual  
defendants seeking that they share in the clean-up cost.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/communities/hammonton_egg-harbor- 
city/officials-trying-to-determine-extent-of-soil-contamination-in- 
egg/article_d2b5c268-7c5b-11e1-bcf0-0019bb2963f4.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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