Tainted Sites Erased in a Blink ; 1,800 Cut From Dep List with No Notice

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Engineers say the old Kingsland Landfill in Lyndhurst harbors a stew of industrial and household waste, a toxic goop that accumulated during a half-century of unregulated dumping.

But the Meadowlands dump and nearly 300 other of the most polluted properties in Bergen and Passaic counties were quietly removed from New Jersey's official contaminated site list last year.

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Tainted Sites Erased in a Blink ; 1,800 Cut From Dep List with No Notice

Statewide, more than 1,800 sites vanished from the watch list in 2005 without any public notice from the keeper of the list, the Department of Environmental Protection. Contaminated chemical plants, leaky gas stations, airports with tainted groundwater all stricken from the list even though...

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