Company agrees to toxic cleanups in Hudson County
A Pittsburgh company blamed for chromium pollution in Hudson County has agreed to clean up a former industrial site in Jersey City within five years, the Star-Ledger reported today.
PPG Industries will remediate a 16.6-acre site on Garfield Avenue that once was home to a chromite ore refinement plant (1924-63). The agreement was part of a partial settlement announced by the state attorney general and DEP, according to the Ledger. It won’t be finalized until the close of a 30-day public comment period that starts March 16.
The company also agreed to remediate 13 other contaminated sites in Jersey City, Weehawken and Bayonne.
The agreement comes just over two weeks after the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Interfaith Community Organization of Hoboken filed a federal lawsuit claiming cleanup at the Garfield Ave. site, known to contain the carcinogen hexavalent chromium, was taking too long.
Hexavalent chromium was a byproduct of the chromite ore refinement that predecessors of three companies — Honeywell International, PPG Industries Inc. and Tierra Solutions Inc. — conducted in Hudson County, according to the Star-Ledger.
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