[CPEO-BIF] Compton Lakes, New Jersey residents question flushing

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents above contaminated plume alarmed at cleanup plan

by James M. O’Neill 
Northjersey.com (NJ)
May 13, 2017

Some North Jersey residents who live above one of the largest vapor intrusion sites in the country are so worried about a proposal to flush away the contaminated groundwater beneath their homes by pumping clean water into the ground that they have lobbied the state to hold a public hearing on the plan.

The groundwater under about 450 homes in Pompton Lakes is contaminated with PCE and TCE, cancer-causing solvents that were dumped at a DuPont munitions facility decades ago and spread through groundwater to the adjacent neighborhood.

In 2008, officials discovered the solvents were vaporizing up through the soil in some of the basements in the area.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/story/news/environment/2017/05/13/residents-above-contaminated-plume-alarmed-cleanup-plan/321261001/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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