From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Fri, 30 Jun 2017 16:24:41 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] "EPA presents new remediation plan for Mansfield Superfund site, New Jersey |
EPA presents new remediation plan for Mansfield Superfund site Proposal to connect 19 affected homes to public water line By Liam Donovan Sparta Independent Stanhope — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was in town Tuesday night to explain to residents the latest efforts to counteract water contamination from the Mansfield Trail Dump Superfund site. “Residential exposure to contaminated groundwater is an unacceptable risk to current users,” Anne Rosenblatt of the EPA told attendees at the Stanhope Municipal Building, adding that EPA now intended to connect the affected homes, originally serviced through a well system, to a public water line. The Superfund site — a wooded area near the intersection of the Mansfield bike path and Stanhope-Sparta Road — was used as a dump for septic wastes from the late 1950s through at least the early 1970s, according to the EPA. Sludge-like waste was dumped in trenches in the area and contaminated the groundwater with volatile organic compounds, which are chemicals that easily become vapors or gases. The vapors from the contaminated groundwater underneath some nearby homes has seeped into basements, and samples taken by the Sussex County Department of Health in 2005 identified trichloroethylene (TCE) — an organic solvent used in industrial processes — in residential drinking water wells along Brookwood and Ross Roads in Byram. … For the entire article, see http://www.spartaindependent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20170628/NEWS01/170629944 -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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