2011 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:43:48 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: "$50M Raritan Arsenal [NJ} site cleanup planned"
 
$50M Raritan Arsenal site cleanup planned


Written by Bob Makin
MyCentralJersey.com
November 13, 2011
EDISON - Although no one ever has suffered illness or injury at the many sites that make up the former Raritan Arsenal, the federal government will spend about $50 million over the next several years to find and clean up chemicals and weapons, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

During a meeting on Wednesday in the township’s municipal complex, Army Corps representatives went over plans and recent accomplishments at the 3,200-acre site, now home to Raritan Center, Heller Industrial Park, Middlesex County College, Thomas Edison County Park, a nursery school, townhouses and buildings operated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

After an inert bomb was discovered on Oct. 13 during a parking lot excavation at a distribution center for the AriZona Beverage Co. in Raritan Center, taxpayers expressed relief about yet another mining for undiscovered munitions.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20111113/NJNEWS/311140009/-50M- Raritan-Arsenal-site-cleanup-planned

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