E.P.A. Schedules 2nd Public Meeting on Edgewater, N.J. Toxic Site: Public also Given More Time to Provide Input
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Category: Hazardous WasteType: News
Source: EPA
Date: Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
(New York, N.Y.) The E.P.A. (EPA) has provided more time for the public to provide input on the suggested project to address contamination at the Quanta Resources Superfund Location in Edgewater, New Jersey. E.P.A. will also hold a 2nd public meeting on September 13. Past industrial operations at the Quanta Resources Location have caused chemical and other contamination of the property, located at 163 River Road in Edgewater, New Jersey. The suggested project for this part of the cleanup was issued July 2010. The 1st public meeting and subsequent information sessions were held in August.
E.P.A. invites the public to ask questions and submit comments for the Quanta Resources Superfund Location at the public meeting in September. Written comments can also be submitted to E.P.A. until the close of the public review period on September 20.
Meeting Time and Place:
Tuesday, September 13, 2010 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the American Legion Post, 1165 River Road Edgewater, New Jersey 07020-1315
The Quanta Resources Location on River Road at the intersection of Gorge Road in Edgewater Borough, Bergen County, New Jersey has contamination from several former industrial facilities that once operated at that location. The former Quanta property occupies approximately 5.5 acres of land.
The Location is a former waste oil terminal and prior to that, a coal tar facility with numerous tanks, some of which were abandoned, used to store waste oil, tar, asphalt, sludge and other liquids. The State of New Jersey closed the facility down in 1981 when its storage tanks were found to contain large quantities of waste oils contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). PCBs are man-made chemicals that persist in the environment and can affect the immune, reproductive, nervous and endocrine systems and are potentially cancer-causing.
E.P.A. supervised a series of actions at the Location between 1984 and 1987. The work focused on cleaning and decommissioning abandoned storage tanks and piping. Subsequent sampling at the Location revealed the presence of residual contamination in the soil, ground water and sediment that pose a long term risk to human health or the environment. The Location was listed on the National Priorities List, or Superfund in September 2002.
The administrative record for the Quanta Location is accessible for review at the Edgewater Free Public Library, 49 Hudson Avenue, Edgewater, NJ. Visit EPA's Quanta web page (http://www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/npl/quanta/) for additional information about the Quanta Resources Superfund Location or to download a copy of the Suggested Plan.
Members of the public are encouraged to review on the Suggested cleanup project during the public review period, which ends on September 20, 2010. Written comments can be emailed or sent to:
Richard Ho, U.S. EPA, 290 Broadway, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10007-1866, email: ho.richard@epa.gov
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