[CPEO-BIF] TCE may have migrated under Pompton Lake, Wayne, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cancer-causing pollutant detected in well in Wayne

BY JAMES M. O’NEILL
BERGEN RECORD (NJ)
April 30, 3016

A cancer-causing pollutant in the groundwater beneath a Pompton Lakes neighborhood was also detected in a nearby residential well in Wayne, raising the possibility that the contamination could be migrating under Pompton Lake to the other side.

State and federal officials say the pollutant – TCE, a solvent – is found in cleaners, paints and other products commonly used by homeowners and that one of these could have been the source of the pollution that showed up in the Wayne well. And officials overseeing cleanup of the contaminated groundwater beneath hundreds of homes in Pompton Lakes have said for years that the pollution wasn’t likely to migrate deep beneath the lake to the Wayne side.

However, two independent hydrogeologists, who looked at the geology underlying the region at The Record’s request, say it’s certainly possible the contamination could have traveled under Pompton Lake and then been detected in the residential well in the Pines Lake section of Wayne.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/cancer-causing-pollutant-detected-in-well-in-wayne-1.1556192
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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