[CPEO-BIF] Harmony School at Princeton Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

PLAINSBORO: Pesticide cleanup at Forrestal awaits DEP approval

By Fred Tuccillo
CentralJersey.com (NJ)
January 7, 2010

PLAINSBORO - State certification of a completed soil contamination 
cleanup at the future site of The Harmony School at Princeton Forrestal 
Village is pending with the Department of Environmental Protection, a 
spokesman confirmed this week.

"The NFA (No Further Action letter) is in-house and pending," said Larry 
Hajna of the department's press office.

Issuance of the letter will certify that 22,000 cubic yards of soil 
contaminated with the pesticide dieldrin has been satisfactorily removed 
and "remediated." To comply with DEP requirements, the contaminated soil 
was buried along the edge of Route 1 under 12 feet of clean soil, which 
was then planted over with grass, according to David Knights, director 
of marketing for Princeton Forrestal Village, which manages the site for 
Princeton University. He said the cleanup project had cost more than 
$500,000.

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For the entire article, see
http://centraljersey.com/articles/2010/01/07/topstory/doc4b465473c4349663172217.txtBottom

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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