Tag: United States Environmental Protection Agency
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Bordentown City officials shift focus of reported lead exceedances to inside the home
As the Bordentown City municipality works to address the concern of lead exceedances found in multiple homeowners’ drinking water throughout the area, city officials are beginning to shift focus to linking the issue with interior plumbing. When the Bordentown City Board of Commissioners held a July 24 public hearing at the Carslake Community Center to…
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Celebration of the EPA takes place at Old Bridge site
OLD BRIDGE — The site of the cleanup at the Margaret’s Creek sector of the Raritan Bay Slag Superfund site was fitting as elected officials and the New Jersey Sierra Club commemorated the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week. The EPA was created on July 9, 1970 through bipartisan efforts during…
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Funding fight continues for Margaret’s Creek cleanup
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — As cleanup at the Margaret’s Creek sector of the Raritan Bay Slag Superfund site finally begins, a battle of who is eventually going to pay for the cleanup continues to ensue in the courts. In a decision last month, the Supreme Court of New Jersey ruled against…
