[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Middlesex (NJ) landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Landfill trespassing, toxicity worries draw concerns in Middlesex Borough

By JARED KALTWASSER
East Brunswick Scarlet Scuttlebutt (NJ)
February 23, 2009

Borough officials plan to increase anti-trespassing measures at the site 
of a former municipal landfill that was contaminated with uranium ore.

Representatives from the borough met with officials from the state 
Department of Transportation, the federal Department of Energy and the 
Army Corps of Engineers on Feb. 3 for an update on the former Middlesex 
Landfill site on Mountain Avenue between Wellington Street and Pershing 
Avenue, according to Councilwoman Debra DeVuyst.

The site was contaminated in the 1940s when uranium-contaminated soil 
was disposed of there. The soil came from a nearby plant that was used 
in the development of the atomic bomb. The Department of Energy cleaned 
up the site in the 1980s, and the site is listed as managed by the 
department's Office of Legacy Management. An online fact sheet on the 
site indicates that it is released for unrestricted use.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20090223/NEWS/902230383/1003/newsfront

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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