From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:56:49 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Pembroke Associates solvent site, Egg Harbor City, New Jersey |
Officials trying to determine extent of soil contamination in Egg
Harbor City
By LEE PROCIDA Press of Atlantic City (NJ) April 1, 2012EGG 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, seehttp://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 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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