[CPEO-BIF] Lipari Landfill, Gloucester County, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Once the nation’s most notorious landfill, it’s finally off the Superfund list 
The removal of Lipari Landfill in New Jersey from the EPA's Superfund list marks the closing of a chapter of what was once ranked as the most dangerous landfill in the nation.

by Frank Kummer
Philadelphia Inquirer
October 14, 2024

Lipari Landfill in Gloucester County was once so notorious for the “witches brew” of toxins leaking from it that then-U.S. Congressman Jim Florio, who wrote the Superfund legislation in 1980, made its cleanup a personal mission.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency placed Lipari on its new Superfund list in 1982, and named it the most dangerous dump in the nation. 

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While the communities around Lipari did remain open, the landfill became emblematic of all that was wrong with the unregulated, unlined dumps scattered around the Philly region and U.S., where haulers routinely disposed of industrial waste on top of residential waste.


After more than 40 years of cleanup and monitoring — and $300 million — Lipari is no longer a threat, EPA officials say. This month, they announced its removal from the Superfund list. Alcyon Lake has been cleaned and is surrounded by a park, ball fields, and trails. On a recent day, some people at the park said they had never even heard of Lipari.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/lipari-landfill-alycon-lake-epa-superfund-20241014.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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