On 11/06/09, EPA Region II initiated an emergency response action at an abandoned industrial facility on the bank of the Passaic River in Newark, NJ. The Site contains abandoned ASTs and USTs, one of which dischrged its contents into the Passaic River. The Director, ERRD, verbally authorized $225K to activate ERRS to permanently cease the release into the river, which was temporarily being contained by NJDEP-ER and mitigate the discharge sources at the Site.
Based on subsequent extensive sampling and analysis of chemicals found at the Site a decision was made in late January, 2011 to restart Site activities and initiate a time-critical removal action to complete the work already done.
