[CPEO-MEF] Raritan Arsenal (NJ) RAB

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Work on arsenal site could take 5 to 10 years
EWA prez says advisory board doesn't represent entire community

BY JAY BODAS
Woodbridge Sentinel (NJ)
October 11, 2006

EDISON - It's unlikely any of the buried ordnance on the old Raritan 
Arsenal property will pose any danger to the public, a federal official 
said recently.

"There has never been an occurrence of anything happening at Raritan," 
James Moore, a project manager for the Army Corps of Engineers, said 
recently. "It is rare that we find stuff that is live, very rare. Also, 
a lot of the area has been in large part developed, and so where the 
public would walk is safe."

Moore made the comments after an Oct. 3 public meeting of the 
Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) to discuss cleanup progress at the 
former arsenal site. The RAB is a joint undertaking by the federal 
Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Defense. The Army 
Corps of Engineers is monitoring the cleanup work.


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For the entire article, see
http://ws.gmnews.com/news/2006/1011/Front_Page/033.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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