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In New Jersey, the Department of Environmental Protection's (NJDEP) Site Remediation Program oversees the Superfund program. As of 16 August 2024, there are 115 Superfund sites listed on the National Priorities List (NPL). Thirty-six additional sites have been cleaned up and deleted from the list.
Hackensack, New Jersey United States, UK, China, Austria, Germany Remondis: 1934 Lünen Germany: 10.100 8.900 (2019) Renewi: 1880 Milton Keynes United Kingdom: 1.780 (2019) Republic Services: 1998 Arizona USA: 9.400 (2016) SA Waste Holdings: 1990 Johannesburg South Africa: Serco: 1929 Hook United Kingdom: 3.248 (2019) Service Corporation of ...
The A.O. Polymer manufacturing site is located in Sparta Township, New Jersey. This facility created special polymers, plastics, and resins. It was also used for reclaiming spent solvents. The facility's poor waste handling led to serious contamination of the ground. It also contaminated the water in the ground with volatile organic compounds ...
The asbestos removal may take longer and cost more than the actual demolition. For example, the former seat of parliament of East Germany, the Palast der Republik, was stripped of most of its asbestos between 1998 and 2001, before it was finally demolished starting in 2006. The Utah State Prison underwent a full asbestos removal before its ...
In 1943, Johns-Manville suppressed a report confirming the link between asbestos and cancer. During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the company faced thousands of individual and class action lawsuits based on asbestos-related injuries such as asbestosis, lung cancer and malignant mesothelioma. Many new settlements included offering $600 for ...
Elevated amounts of lead, antimony, arsenic, and copper were found by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Due to the concentrated amount along the shore of Laurence Harbor and Sayreville, the NJDEP called the EPA to evaluate the site. The EPA detected high levels of lead in the slag, soil, and water.
Removal of the Westecunk Creek Barrier from Westecunk Creek at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in 2015. This is a list of dams in New Jersey that have been removed as physical impediments to free-flowing rivers or streams.
In 1984, Congress amended the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to establish a national regulatory framework for underground storage tanks. New Jersey became one of the first states to implement this framework when it enacted Chapter 102 of New Jersey's Pamphlet Laws for 1986 (P.L.1986, c.102), which supplemented the Water Pollution ...