Summary
GARFIELD residents had every right to expect that New Jersey would protect them from the dangerous chemicals oozing under their homes and businesses. One function of government, after all, is to keep citizens safe. Another is to keep them informed. The state Department of Environmental Protection failed miserably on both counts. For decades. They botched the job so badly, in fact, that a DEP official dispensed with excuses and told The Record the environmental cleanup was a "poster child" for mismanagement.
"It wasn't handled with the urgency that it needed," Assistant Commissioner David Sweeney said, in what we would call an understatement.See the full content of this document
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The Garfield Story
Nearly three decades after three tons of chromium leaked from a tank at E.C. Electroplating into the groundwater of the surrounding neighborhood, the cancer-causing chemical is st...
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