[CPEO-MEF] Fire at former Raritan Arsenal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Blaze poses no toxic threat

Middlesex County Home News Tribune (NJ)
By RICHARD KHAVKINE
February 1, 2006

EDISON - Air-sample tests taken during the Friday afternoon fire at the 
former Raritan Arsenal did not detect dangerous levels of toxic 
materials, Middlesex County Public Health Director David Papi said 
yesterday.


"We just found normal combustibles," said Papi, adding that a final 
report due this week is not likely to turn up any unexpected findings.

Friday's test results revealed "nothing else that we felt would be 
alarming," he said.

The fire burned about 150 acres of brush and two structures on a stretch 
of mostly desolate land behind the New Jersey Exposition and Convention 
Center adjacent to the Raritan River.

The Army manufactured ammunition and explosives at the arsenal, which 
was active from 1917 until the early 1960s. Arsenal personnel commonly 
dumped and buried munitions, including mustard gas, a fact that led to 
requests for the air samples, Papi said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060201/NEWS0102/602010349/1001

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Lenny Siegel
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