[CPEO-BIF] Pohatcong Valley Superfund Site (including vapor intrusion)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
U.S. EPA Region 2
January 13, 2015

Proposed Settlement Regarding Cleanup of Superfund Site In Warren  
County, New Jersey; Value of Cleanup Work Estimated at $92 Million;  
Underground Contaminated Plume to be Addressed


(New York, N.Y.) The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental  
Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a proposed settlement with  
several companies to address the Pohatcong Valley Groundwater  
Contamination Superfund site in Warren County, New Jersey. The  
companies are Pechiney Plastic Packaging, Inc. (Pechiney), Albea  
Americas, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Citigroup Inc., and  
Rexam Beverage Can Company. The Pohatcong site is contaminated with  
trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE), which can have  
serious health effects.

Under the proposed settlement, Pechiney will have primary  
responsibility for cleaning up contaminated soil and groundwater at  
the site, connecting some residents to public water to avoid  
contaminated groundwater, and operating systems to capture vapors  
that are getting into a manufacturing facility. As a precaution, the  
company will continue to monitor for vapor intrusion into homes at  
the site. In addition, the EPA will receive an estimated $29.5  
million for certain past costs and be paid for its future oversight  
costs at the site. Pechiney will also perform current and future  
cleanup work estimated to cost $62.5 million, and will pay EPA’s  
future oversight costs.

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For the entire article, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/ 
0/26b48f686442e61e85257dcc005ad939?OpenDocument

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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>
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