[CPEO-BIF] ERA South and Royal Glass, Englewood, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Englewood property owners blame each other for tainted groundwater

BY GIOVANNA FABIANO
THE RECORD (NJ)
May 29, 2011

A plan to turn a former industrial site in Englewood into a mixed-use  
development is facing another in a long series of hurdles - this time  
it's a battle over who is responsible for a plume of contaminated  
groundwater.

The ERA South site, which originally called for office space, a hotel  
and a residential complex on the east bank of Overpeck Creek, has  
been in the works for the better part of a decade, hampered by the  
economic downturn, an ongoing builder's remedy lawsuit and a costly  
environmental cleanup in a corridor that once housed dozens of  
factories.

But perhaps its biggest obstacle is a dispute with a neighboring  
property - the former Royal Glass factory - over a plume of  
groundwater tainted with chlorinated chemicals that far exceed state  
safety standards.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/ 
122790564_Property_owners_blame_each_other_for_tainted_groundwater.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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