[CPEO-BIF] "Feds seeking damages against DuPont for contamination in Pompton Lakes, " New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Feds seeking damages against DuPont for contamination in Pompton Lakes

By JAMES M. O’NEILL
Bergen Record (NJ)
November 28, 2014


The federal government is seeking significant damages from DuPont for  
decades of pollution that has contaminated soil and water on the  
company’s sprawling 600-acre property where the facility played a key  
role in making ammunition for both world wars, and in adjacent  
neighborhoods in Pompton Lakes.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and DuPont have reached a  
cooperative agreement as part of the process to determine the extent  
of damage to fish, wildlife and other natural resources from the  
pollution generated by the munitions facility, which DuPont operated  
from 1902 to 1994. The two sides will share information, and DuPont  
has agreed to pay for some of the agency’s research. “This way we can  
work together to achieve restoration of the damaged natural resources  
more quickly,” said Melissa Foster, a senior biologist with Fish and  
Wildlife’s New Jersey field office.

Still, DuPont retains the right not to fund certain aspects of the  
investigation, in which case the agency would conduct them on its own.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/feds-seeking-damages-against-dupont- 
for-contamination-in-pompton-lakes-1.1142783

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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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