[CPEO-BIF] Chromium in Garfield, New Jersey basesments

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

NJ Town In Fear Over 30 Year Old Toxic Mess

By KIRSTIN COLE
WPIX (PIX 11) TV News
June 11, 2012

GARFIELD, New Jersey - For nearly three decades New Jersey's  
Department of Environmental Protection was in charge of the clean up  
at EC Electroplating in Garfield, NJ. The state agency cleaned up a  
mere 30-percent of a three ton toxic spill in 1983 of the chemical  
chromium, a known carnicogen.


After the company folded in 2009, the state turned the toxic mess  
over to the Environmental Protection Agency. Now the clean up is on a  
fast track: monitoring wells are being drilled, 13 homeowners'  
basements have been treated so Chromium won't invade anymore - which  
negatively impacts home values - and the EPA is working to pull  
dozens of barrels of toxic chromium out of the basement of the now  
closed EC Electroplating, but have been hampered by near constant  
flooding.

Other toxic chemicals are presumed to be mixed in as well.


...

For the entire story, see
http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-garfield-toxic-concerns,0,131308.story

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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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