In Plan to Dump Contaminated Soil, Classic New Jersey Politics Emerge

A Christie administration plan would allow tons of contaminated soil to be dumped on private land along the Rahway River. Credit Richard Perry/The New York Times

nytimes.com - by Michael Powell - February 24, 2014

. . . Decades ago, American Cyanamid ruined this wetlands expanse, once home to rich oyster beds, with cyanide-contaminated sludge, the chemical detritus of the past century.

Years ago, it was partially cleaned and covered with a few feet of topsoil. . .

. . . The Christie administration has another idea for this land. It appears poised to let a company, Soil Safe, truck in millions of tons of petroleum-contaminated soils and dump it on this site, which lies directly west of Staten Island and the Arthur Kill.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)