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, 2011EDISON - 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. ... For the entire article, seehttp://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20111113/NJNEWS/311140009/-50M- Raritan-Arsenal-site-cleanup-planned -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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