[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: "Is there any danger from NJ munitions plant explosion a century ago?"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Is there any danger from NJ munitions plant explosion a century ago?

By Susan Loyer
My Central Jersey
April 22, 2025

SAYREVILLE - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has reached out to about 100 property owners in the Ernston Road area to determine if further environmental cleanup is needed after a huge munitions plant explosion more than a century ago.

The Oct. 4, 1918 explosion, just a month before the end of World War I at the Morgan Depot, an artillery shell loading plant, killed about 100 people and injured hundreds more.

The facility, one of the largest arms plants in the world at the time, was destroyed along with more than 300 surrounding buildings, forcing the evacuation and reconstruction of Sayreville, South Amboy and Laurence Harbor.

And now, a century later, the Corps of Engineers wants to make sure that the area is free of contamination and potentially dangerous material.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/middlesex-county/2025/04/22/us-army-corps-investigates-former-munitions-plant-site-in-sayreville/82690424007/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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