This is a recent reading appearing in a local paper
News: NJ Superfund Cleanups Drag On Due To Lack Of Funds
Posted by admin on Thursday, March 24 @ 04:59:26 PST
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In Edgewater's posh City Place, residents can splurge on a $135 "salt-of-the-earth detox wrap" at a spa. Next door is a fenced-off lot contaminated with chromium, arsenic and lead.
Few seem to know the Superfund site is there - a warning sign was taken down last year, and a neighbor spent months trying to persuade the Environmental Protection Agency to replace it.
In Wood-Ridge, workers in protective suits dug up layers of tainted soil from Leonore Reichert's back yard. That was in 1990. They haven't returned to finish the job. The creek where her children used to play remains filled with mercury even as developers have torn down old homes on her block to make way for duplexes.
"It kind of seems like people have just forgotten about it," Reichert said.
As it enters its 25th year, the once-heralded Superfund program is in trouble. Critics say it is not meeting its mission to clean up the nation's most toxic sites as quickly as possible and make sure they pose no future health threat to the people who live and work nearby.
***FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR FAMILIES AND YOUR CHILDREN'S
HEALTH LETS DO SOMETHING PEOPLE!!!!***
