Nnewstracker: 31,500 Tons of Soil Removed From Superfund Site
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › October 23, 2009
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what's new: Since early spring, workers have removed about 31,500 tons -- or 22,000 cubic yards -- of contaminated soil from a Superfund site in Wood-Ridge that had lingered on the federal cleanup list for a quarter century. "We've had a good summer of productivity even with all the bad weather," said Doug Tomchuk, the Environmental Protection Agency's project manager for the site. The material is sent to a special landfill in Quebec.
In addition, a removal order was signed Sept. 11 which will allow about 4,000 cubic yards of mercury-contaminated soil to be excavated from the West Riser ditch adjacent to the site, part of Berry's Creek. Workers are installing two coffer dams along the contaminated stretch of the ditch and will reroute the water flow so the material can be removed. The removal will clean up the ditch so that another project can proceed to replace an old tide gate in the ditch.See the full content of this document
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Nnewstracker: 31,500 Tons of Soil Removed From Superfund Site
BACKGROUND: The former mercury processing facility, called Ventron/Vel...
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