[CPEO-MEF] SURFACE WATER: Wampum Lake, downstream from Ft. Monmouth (NJ)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Source of Wampum Lake pollution in dispute
Board members differ on Fort Monmouth as cause of contamination

BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI
Atlanticville (NJ)
April 19, 2012

The source of heavy metal contamination in Wampum Lake in Eatontown  
remains a topic of debate among officials involved in the  
redevelopment of Fort Monmouth. According to Frank Barricelli, a  
member of the Fort Monmouth Restoration Advisory Board (RAB), the  
metals found in the lake are not uncommon, and he said there is no  
evidence that one specific source of contamination is to blame.

"There is non-point-source of contamination to Wampum Lake,"  
Barricelli said in a presentation at the April 5 RAB meeting. "It is  
a cumulative effect of many sources over the years. Common practices  
of everyday living produce environmental contamination."

Citing a study done by the Monmouth County Health Department of 20  
lakes and personal research, Barricelli showed that the same metals  
were found in other lakes nearby and could have come from all of the  
areas surrounding the lake as well as Fort Monmouth.

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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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