[CPEO-BIF] Pompton Lakes, New Jersey dredging controversy

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA's dredging plan for Pompton Lake skips some hot spots of  
contamination

By JAMES M. O'NEILL
Bergen Record (NJ)
October 31, 2014

The federal government has proposed making DuPont dredge contaminated  
sediment from nearly 40 acres of Pompton Lake, but the new proposal  
does not include cleanup of contaminated hot spots along three miles  
of the Ramapo River.

The plan calls for DuPont to dredge about 128,000 cubic yards of  
sediment - more than 10,600 dump trucks' worth - and send it to a  
licensed disposal facility. The contaminants, which are mercury and  
lead, flowed into the lake from Acid Brook, which runs through  
DuPont's former munitions facility in Pompton Lakes.

Most of the sediment would be dredged from a 36-acre portion of the  
lake bed where the Acid Brook flows into the lake. Two other portions  
of lake bottom near the shoreline would also be addressed, one of  
about half an acre and the other about 2.5 acres.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/environment/dredging-plan-for-pompton- 
skips-hot-spots-1.1123638? 
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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
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