[CPEO-BIF] "Environmental group and officials clash over Pompton Lakes [New Jersey] cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental group and officials clash over Pompton Lakes cleanup

By Leslie Scott
Suburban Trends
July 31, 2014


Despite resistance from municipal officials, a local environmental  
group continues to push the Borough Council to support its position  
and oppose DuPont's request to modify the action levels of its  
contamination cleanup plan.

In 2013, DuPont requested a change in the action levels of the  
cleanup plan to be in line with the less stringent national levels.

This cleanup site, also called The Plume, was contaminated when  
DuPont operated a munitions factory in the borough for 92 years.

The local Citizens for a Clean Pompton Lakes (CCPL) is concerned that  
modifying the work plan would artificially minimize the public health  
risk, make it appear as if the contamination no longer exists, and  
cause DuPont to walk away from its responsibilities to clean The Plume.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/environment/citizens-group-keeps- 
prodding-boro-about-cleanup-standards-1.1059654

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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