[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: "$50M Raritan Arsenal [NJ} site cleanup planned"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

$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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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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