[CPEO-MEF] Former Middlesex Sampling Plant (NJ)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bush proposes $15 million for cleanup of Middlesex plant

By GIOVANNA FABIANO
Bridgewater Courier News (NJ)
May 2, 2006

MIDDLESEX BOROUGH -- The cleanup of the former Middlesex Sampling Plant 
-- an atomic research factory until 1967 -- can finally be completed, 
thanks to $15 million in federal funds proposed in President Bush's 2007 
budget.

The 9-acre site on Mountain Avenue was once used to process radioactive 
ores as part of the Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bomb. 
Though the site hasn't been operational in decades, large amounts of 
chemical and radioactive contamination still exist in what officials 
assure is a "secured and contained" area.

Federal and state officials, including Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-Long 
Branch, Middlesex Mayor Jerry D'Angelo and members of the U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers -- which is responsible for the site -- announced the 
proposed funds Monday at the former plant.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060502/NEWS/605020304

--
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
http://www.cpeo.org

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