[CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES: New Jersey Agent Orange cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Edison takes title to cleaned-up Superfund site

By RICK MALWITZ
Scarlet Scuttlebutt (NJ)
September 22, 2008


For the longest time homeowners living near the Chemical Insecticide 
Corporation were aware of the nature of its business, without 
considering the environmental costs.

...

Soon neighbors would learn that CIC's 5.7-acre property was among the 
most polluted in the country, and would require a staggering $53 million 
for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean under its 
Superfund program.

Yesterday, neighbors who attended a press conference at the site, 
learned that it was given a clean bill of health after the EPA removed 
more than 350,000 tons of contaminated soil, digging as deep as 30 feet.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080922/NEWS/809220332/-1/newsfront

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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