[CPEO-BIF] Damage assessment at Kiddie Kollege, Franklin Township, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental damage assessment a rarety for New Jersey


By Jan Hefler
Philadelphia Inquirer
June 3, 2014

The manufacturer who abandoned a tainted thermometer plant - which  
reopened as the Kiddie Kollege day care without an environmental  
cleanup - was recently ordered to pay $4 million in damages and to  
share in the $2 million remediation of the Gloucester County site.

The court action taken against Philip J. Giuliano last month is rare  
in a state that has more than 14,000 contaminated sites.

Jeff Tittel, director of the N.J. chapter of the Sierra Club, said  
the last time the DEP took advantage of a 1977 law that allows the  
agency to collect damages against polluters was a decade ago.  
"Usually DEP will go after a polluter just to cover the cleanup  
costs, and that's done about twice a year," he said. "Ten years ago,  
it sued for damages in the Passaic River dioxin case and then settled  
recently for $145 million." The river, in North Jersey, contains high  
concentrations of dioxin, PCBs, and other toxins that were built up  
after more than 100 years of industrial dumping by various companies,  
according to the DEP and the federal Environmental Protection Agency.


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For the entire article, see
http://articles.philly.com/2014-06-03/news/50275836_1_dep-kiddie- 
kollege-polluters

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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