[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Maywood Chemical Co. Superfund site, Maywood, NJ

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This site is part of the Formerly Used Sites Remedial Action  
Program, formerly managed by the Energy Department but currently  
managed by the Army Corps of Engineers. - LS]

A lengthy cleanup approved in Maywood

BY SCOTT FALLON
BERGEN RECORD (NJ)
JULY 23, 2012

Most of the contaminated groundwater at the Maywood Chemical Co.  
Superfund site will be left untreated to naturally break down over  
the course of centuries as part of a $36.8 million cleanup plan  
chosen this month by federal officials.

The project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will remove the  
source of the groundwater pollution - about 25,000 cubic yards of  
soil and pond sludge laced with lithium, benzene and arsenic - from  
the 11.7-acre site off West Hunter Avenue.

But even after removal, the water could take up to 280 years to reach  
cleanup levels, according to a federal report issued this month.

"When you look at other sites around the country that have done this,  
you see the concentrations drop," said Jim Moore, an corps project  
manager for the site. "This is the most logical and beneficial  
approach."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/ 
163375086_A_lengthy_cleanup_approved_.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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