[CPEO-BIF] "Edgewater day-care center close to Superfund site moving to North Bergen" (New Jersey)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Edgewater day-care center close to Superfund site moving to North Bergen

BY SCOTT FALLON
BERGEN RECORD (NJ)
JULY 18, 2012

EDGEWATER - A day-care center that has operated next to one of North  
Jersey's worst toxic sites for more than two decades will move in the  
next few months to accommodate an increase in enrollment, its  
director said Tuesday.

The Palisades Child Care Center, located just feet away from the  
Quanta Resources Superfund site, will move to a larger facility in  
nearby North Bergen. The center has been looking for a new home for  
years said Patty Doerner, its director. She said neither the  
impending massive cleanup of the Quanta site nor future plans to  
demolish the office building at 115 River Road that houses the center  
were factors in the move.

"We've been here for over 20 years, and we've just outgrown the  
space," Doerner said.

Officials at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have long said  
there is no health threat to the children at the center despite  
contamination from Quanta seeping under 115 River Road. Air tests  
have found no harmful levels of contaminants in the center, although  
they have been detected in the basement. However, a 2009 report by  
the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry said  
children, "such as those attending the Palisades Child Center, may be  
at risk of potential exposures to contaminants" at the Quanta site.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/ 
162828206_Day_care_near_toxic_site_set_to_move.html?c=y&page=2&scpromo=1

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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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