[CPEO-BIF] "EPA Cleaning Up 400-Acre Superfund Site In Cinnaminson, Delran, " New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA Cleaning Up 400-Acre Superfund Site In Cinnaminson, Delran
NJDEP discovered groundwater contamination during the closing of the landfills in the 1980s.

By Anthony Bellano 
Cinnaminson Patch (NJ)
October 8, 2018 

CINNAMINSON, NJ - The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working on cleaning up a superfund site in which several contaminants were discovered in the early 1980s. The EPA is currently working on the cleanup of a superfund site that covers about 400 acres of land in Cinnaminson and Delran, according to the EPA’s website. 

The cleanup focuses on properties bounded by Union Landing Road, U.S. Route 130, River Road, and Taylors Lane, as well as “properties outside these boundaries where contaminants may have migrated or threaten to migrate.”

Groundwater contamination was discovered by NJDEP through the review of groundwater monitoring data collected as part of the closure plan for the landfills in the early 1980s, according to the EPA. Contaminants including vinyl chloride, 1, 2- dichloroethane, PCE, TCE, cis-1, 2-dichloroethene (cis-1, 2-DCE), benzene and arsenic were found in the groundwater, soil and soil vapor.

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For the entire article, see
https://patch.com/new-jersey/cinnaminson/epa-cleaning-400-acre-superfund-site-cinnaminson-delran

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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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