2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 00:11:07 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] National Lead sues over Raritan Bay Slag Superfund site (NJ)
 
Company tapped to pay for $79 million cleanup of Raritan Bay superfund site files lawsuit


By Seth Augenstein
Newark Star-Ledger (NJ)
June 6, 2013

OLD BRIDGE - A company that was singled out by the Environmental Protection Agency to pay for the $79 million cleanup of the Raritan Bay Slag Superfund site filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday, claiming it only provided the material but never dumped the contamination at the site.

NL Industries, named by the EPA last year as the only potentially- responsible party for the massive cleanup, claims that the lead from blast-furnace bottoms at their former Perth Amboy site was taken to the Old Bridge and Sayreville shoreline with full knowledge of local and even federal officials.

The Texas-based company claims it didn't decide to use lead to bolster the shoreline - and that the “"ion's share" of the responsibility belongs to the public officials who came up with the plan and carried it out.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2013/06/ texas_company_accused_of_rarit.html

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Lenny Siegel
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