[CPEO-BIF] "Feds say there is no Superfund money to finish Garfield [New Jersey] cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Feds say there is no Superfund money to finish Garfield cleanup

By HERB JACKSON and SCOTT FALLON
Bergen Record (NJ)
June 11, 2014

WASHINGTON - The federal government does not have enough money to  
finish cleaning up groundwater contaminated with cancer-causing  
chromium that has sat under a Garfield neighborhood for three decades  
and is spreading, a top environmental official told a congressional  
panel Tuesday.

Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency spent $5 million in  
recent years to remove thousands of tons of highly contaminated soil  
in Garfield, there is no money to treat an underground plume that has  
seeped into homes and businesses in the southwest corner of the city,  
said Judith Enck, a regional administrator at the EPA.

"No remedy has been selected for the final cleanup, but we estimate  
it will cost tens of millions of dollars," Enck told the panel, which  
focused on the Superfund program and is headed by Sen. Cory Booker, D- 
N.J. "We don’t have that money."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/feds-say-there-is-no-superfund-money- 
to-finish-garfield-cleanup-1.1032803

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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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