[CPEO-MEF] Hudson County (NJ) chromium cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup on tap for Hudson County sites
Company will remove chromium in Jersey City, Weehawken, Bayonne

BY BRIAN T. MURRAY
Star-Ledger (NJ)
February 20, 2009

New Jersey authorities and a Pittsburgh corporation blamed for chromium 
pollution throughout Hudson County reached an agreement yesterday for 
cleaning up a site in Jersey City within five years.

PPG Industries will remediate soil and other sources of chromium 
contamination on 16.6 acres on Garfield Avenue -- the site of a chromite 
ore refinement plant from 1924 to 1963 -- under a partial Superior Court 
settlement announced by the state attorney general and the Department of 
Environmental Protection. The deal will not be finalized until after a 
30-day public comment period.

PPG also agreed to complete remediation operations at 13 other 
contaminated sites in Jersey City, Weehawken and Bayonne, pay $1 million 
to Jersey City for a park and pay another $250,000 to oversee the 
settlement plan.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1235107609225660.xml&coll=1

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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
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