[CPEO-BIF] "NJ denies controversial groundwater cleanup plan in Pompton Lakes"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic Secrets: NJ denies controversial groundwater cleanup plan in Pompton Lakes

by Scott Fallon
North Jersey Record
November 30, 2018

State officials have denied a controversial plan to clean contaminated groundwater that sits under a Pompton Lakes neighborhood, saying the project is not needed because levels of cancer-causing chemicals from a former DuPont munitions plant are already decreasing.

In a letter sent this week to a DuPont spinoff company, Chemours, the state Department of Environmental Protection said it would not approve a permit for hydraulic surcharging — a process in which clean water would be pumped into the polluted water beneath 450 homes to dilute the contamination, but not remove it.

The plan was forcefully opposed by more than 150 residents who attended a public hearing on the project more than a year ago. They worried that pumping more water into the ground would cause the water table to rise, flooding their basements with water laced with cancer-causing solvents. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/environment/2018/11/30/nj-denies-groundwater-cleanup-plan-pompton-lakes-dupont-chemours-dow-chemical/2153264002/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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