A small but concerned group of about 30 residents appeared last night at a public meeting of the Chromium Cleanup Partnership (CCP) to hear an eight-member panel give its update on the progress and plans to remove waste from a 16-acre site at 900 Garfield Avenue and the nearby Berry Lane Park project.
The chromium site on Garfield Avenue in 2009, before the cleanup began. When workers cleaning up the massive chromium-contaminated site along Garfield Avenue arrived at work this morning, they noticed that potentially contaminated groundwater had been “pushed up” at the corner of Halladay Street and Carteret Avenue, according to site administrator Mike McCabe. The “small [...]
Blood samples collected from residents living near the Garfield Avenue chromium site this February contained no detectable levels of hexavalent chromium — the same result as samples taken before cleanup work began, officials announced last week. The results show that exposure to dangerous toxins has not increased as PPG Industries, the Department of Environmental Protection [...]
PPG Industries has now agreed to excavate and remove an estimated 708,000 tons of chromium waste and contaminated soil from Garfield Avenue, the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Jersey City announced today.
Do you live within 400 feet of one of PPG’s chromium-contaminated sites in Jersey City? (Not sure? Check the sites here.) Are you worries about chromium contamination in your home? If so, you should head to Thursday’s workshop being put together by the city, the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and PPG (known collectively [...]
Officials have confirmed a meeting next Thursday, Dec. 17, to discuss potential health studies in the chromium-polluted areas being cleaned up under a settlement between the city, the state and PPG Industries. Site administrator Mike McCabe says he is currently reviewing chromium-related health studies and consulting with experts to determine whether or not to implement [...]
Editor’s note: There will be no News Roundup tomorrow; we will return Friday morning. Enjoy your holiday. – Mike McCabe, the court-appointed site administrator, detailed the master plan for cleaning up a number of chromium-contaminated sites Monday night during the first public meeting of the Chromium Cleanup Partnership. – Jersey City Medical Center has begun [...]
“We need assurances, not just your word of mouth,” Randolph Avenue resident Joyce Willis said on Monday night, capturing the overarching sentiment in the City Council chambers as 33 people spoke during a public hearing on the city’s proposed settlement with PPG Industries to clean up a chromium-contaminated site on Garfield Avenue.
As the city’s settlement with PPG Industries enters a one-month public comment period, many community members and environmental advocates say it isn’t tough enough, and some are continuing their own fights against what they call a rogue polluter.
- As we reported yesterday, some critics of Mayor Healy are upset about his campaign’s rental of a Jersey City Incinerator Authority truck to use in Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. “Because he knows people in high places, he gets away with it,” mayoral candidate Lou Manzo tells the Journal. In an editorial, the paper [...]
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