Top EPA Regional Official to Tour Superfund Sites in Northern New Jersey with Congressmember Rodney Frelinghuysen

Press release:

Top EPA Regional Official to Tour Superfund Sites in Northern New Jersey with Congressmember Rodney Frelinghuysen 

Contact: Elias Rodriguez, (732) 672-5520 cell, (212) 637-3664 office, rodriguez.elias@epa.gov

(New York, N.Y. – July 12, 2012) Tomorrow, July 13, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck and Congressmember Rodney Frelinghuysen and State and local officials will announce the completion of a system to treat ground water contaminated by perchloroethylene at the Rockaway Borough Wellfield Superfund site in Rockaway Borough. They will also travel throughout Morris and Essex Counties to review and assess progress on Superfund cleanups at five other hazardous waste sites. The other sites on the tour are *Radiation Technology, Inc., Lake Denmark Road, Rockaway Township, *Rockaway Township Wells, Enterprise Road, Rockaway Township, *Dayco Corp./L.E. Carpenter Co., Main Street, Borough of Wharton, *Dover Municipal Well 4, Richards Avenue, Town of Dover and *Caldwell Trucking Co., Passaic Avenue/O'Connor Drive, Township of Fairfield, Essex County.

Superfund is the federal cleanup program established by Congress in 1980 to investigate and clean up the country’s most hazardous waste sites. The program was enacted in the wake of the discovery of toxic waste dumps such as Love Canal in the 1970s. It allows the EPA to clean up such sites and to compel parties responsible for the pollution to perform cleanups or reimburse the government for EPA-lead cleanups.

What:              Announcement of cleanup milestone, tour of six Superfund sites  with EPA Regional Administrator, member of Congress, state and local officials and subject matter experts, photo opportunities and interviews.

Who:               Judith A. Enck, EPA Regional Administrator

                        Rodney Frelinghuysen, U.S. Congressman

                       

When:             10:15 a.m. Friday, July 13, 2012

Where:            Rockaway Borough Well Field, media are to meet at the treatment facility (aprox. 200 yards South of 25 Union St. - Community Center) at the intersection of Jackson Avenue, Union Street and Ogden Avenue. Rockaway Borough, 07866, Morris County

Note:               For the day’s full itinerary, please email: rodriguez.elias@epa.gov

                                               

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