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EPA Asks Community for Input on Passaic River Cleanup Proposal
EPA is proposing a cleanup plan for the first stage of a two-phased project to remove dioxin-laden sediment from the lower Passaic River directly in front of the Diamond Alkali Superfund site in downtown Newark. The agency is seeking public input through December 19, 2008 on the proposal, which implements a June 2008 agreement between EPA, Occidental Chemical Corporation and Tierra Solutions, Inc. under which the companies agreed to remove, in two phases, a total of 200,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment from the portion of the river directly in front of the Diamond Alkali Superfund site in downtown Newark. Details of the proposal, released to the public on November 19, 2008, will be discussed at a public meeting on Tuesday, December 2, which will be held at 7:00 pm at the Hawkins Street Elementary School located at 8 Hawkins Street in the Ironbound section of Newark.
Copies of the Proposed Plan for the Lower Passaic River Phase 1 Removal Action, Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis and draft Community Involvement Plan are available on-line
here.
EPA Approves Plan for Evaluating Contaminated Sediment Removal Alternatives
On June 23, 2008 EPA signed an agreement with Occidental Chemical and Tierra Solutions (Tierra) to remove 200,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment from the portion of the lower Passaic River that is right in front of the Diamond Alkali site in Newark. Pursuant to that agreement, an Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis (EE/CA) will be performed by Tierra, and overseen by EPA, to identify the goals of the contaminated sediment removal project, to analyze the various alternatives for effectiveness, cost and implementability, and to compare alternatives for consistency with federal and state requirements. As the first step in this process Tierra submitted an EE/CA Work Plan, which EPA approved on August 29, 2008. Although this plan includes a schedule of activities (see Figure 5-1), EPA's approval only applied through the submittal of the Phase 1 EE/CA, since further discussions need to be held to incorporate the required public comment period and the anticipated response to comment period. Click here to download the plan.
EPA Signs Agreement with Companies to Remove Major Source of Dioxin from the Lower Passaic River
A momentous agreement between EPA, Occidental Chemical and Tierra Solutions calls for the most significant removal of contaminated material from the Passaic in history. The settlement, announced June 23, 2008 at a park overlooking the river, involves the removal of nearly half of the dioxin that has contaminated sediment in the Passaic. It requires Occidental and Tierra Solutions to remove 200,000 cubic yards of dioxin-laden material from the portion of the river directly in front of the Diamond Alkali Superfund site in downtown Newark.
Click here to view the press release, click here to view the removal agreement, and click here to view the fact sheet.
Please visit the "Project Activities" section for an overview of what we've been working on for the Lower Passaic River Restoration Project, and for our project documents.
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