[CPEO-MEF] Contaminated Picatinny site needs cleanup, arsenal says

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11/21/02 - Posted 11:43:57 PM from the Daily Record newsroom
Contaminated Picatinny site needs cleanup, arsenal says
Environmental board to focus on well faulted for polluting ground water
By Rob Jennings, Daily Record

ROCKAWAY TWP. -- Picatinny Arsenal's environmental restoration board
will discuss one of its original contaminated sites -- Building 24, a
former dry well and plating facility -- when it meets tonight.

The building was torn down about 10 years ago, and the site was capped
with soil, Picatinny spokesman Frank Misurelli said. It was closed in
1991.

However, a carcinogen that was used as a cleaning agent,
trichloroethane, continues to contaminate the ground water and will
require an eventual cleanup, Misurelli added.

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http://www.dailyrecord.com/news/02/11/21/news8-picclean.htm

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