[CPEO-MEF] Imperial Oil Superfund site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

$24.3M and Still Toxic 

SPECIAL REPORT: This is the second part of a three-day series on the
Superfund program, examining eight Superfund sites in Monmouth and Ocean
counties and cleanup plans that are in most cases not getting the job
done despite millions of dollars spent over more than two decades.

By JAMES A. QUIRK and TODD B. BATES
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
November 22, 2004

MARLBORO -- More than 50 years ago, workers at the chemical refining
facility now known as Imperial Oil began to discharge toxic waste oil
and other contaminants into the environs at the 15-acre site, creating
an ecological horror that poisoned soil and water miles away from the plant.

Today, after 20 years of cleanup work and roughly $24.3 million
earmarked or spent, a large amount of that contamination still remains
-- directly under the Imperial Oil facility, which, unlike many
Superfund sites, still operates. 

Imperial Oil's biggest customer: the U.S. Department of Defense, which
has given the company millions of dollars in contracts over the past
decade for its oil-blending work.

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For the entire article, see 
http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,1120118,00.html 

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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