[CPEO-BIF] National Lead sues over Raritan Bay Slag Superfund site (NJ)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Company tapped to pay for $79 million cleanup of Raritan Bay  
superfund site files lawsuit


By Seth Augenstein
Newark Star-Ledger (NJ)
June 6, 2013

OLD BRIDGE - A company that was singled out by the Environmental  
Protection Agency to pay for the $79 million cleanup of the Raritan  
Bay Slag Superfund site filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday, claiming  
it only provided the material but never dumped the contamination at  
the site.

NL Industries, named by the EPA last year as the only potentially- 
responsible party for the massive cleanup, claims that the lead from  
blast-furnace bottoms at their former Perth Amboy site was taken to  
the Old Bridge and Sayreville shoreline with full knowledge of local  
and even federal officials.

The Texas-based company claims it didn't decide to use lead to  
bolster the shoreline - and that the “"ion's share" of the  
responsibility belongs to the public officials who came up with the  
plan and carried it out.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2013/06/ 
texas_company_accused_of_rarit.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>
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