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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 05:29:52 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "EPA proposes constructing water supply for those affected by toxic Mansfield Trail Dump site, " New Jersey
 
EPA proposes constructing water supply for those affected by toxic Mansfield Trail Dump site
Public meeting scheduled to discuss next step in cleanup process 



BY ERIKA NORTON
Sparta Independent (NJ)
June 21, 2017

BYRAM - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a new project as part of their cleanup of the Mansfield Trail Dump Superfund site last week. The federal agency’s plan is to construct a water line which would allow 18 nearby residents to hookup to a permanent clean drinking water supply.

These residences currently use private wells with water treatment systems that were installed during the earlier stages of the EPA site cleanup.

“The residents have been looking for a solution at the site,” said Elias Rodriguez, an EPA spokesperson. “EPA believes that this proposal addresses the concerns of residents about the permanence of POETS (Point of Entry Treatment Systems, a/k/a/ carbon water filtration and treatment systems).”

The Superfund site — a wooded area near the intersection of the Mansfield bike path and Stanhope-Sparta Road — was used as a dump for septic wastes from the late 1950s through at least the early 1970s, according to the EPA. Sludge-like waste was dumped in trenches in the area and contaminated the groundwater with volatile organic compounds, which are chemicals that easily become vapors or gases.

The vapors from the contaminated groundwater underneath some nearby homes has seeped into basements, and samples taken by the Sussex County Department of Health in 2005 identified trichloroethylene (TCE) - an organic solvent used in industrial processes - in residential drinking water wells along Brookwood and Ross Roads in Byram. Testing done by the state Department of Environmental Protection in March 2006 indicated the presence of TCE concentrations that ranged from 3.9 to 70 micrograms per liter (µg/L). 



For the entire article, see
http://www.spartaindependent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20170621/NEWS01/170629985/EPA-proposes-constructing-water-supply-for-those-affected-by-toxic-Mansfield-Trail-Dump-site

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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