New Green Media: No end in sight for Ford cleanup in Ringwood


From left, Robert Spiegel, executive Director of the Edison Wetlands Association, Wayne Mann and Ringwood residents Roger DeGroat, with his daughter, Deena, stand at a barred entrance to Peters Mine.
Photo credit: The Record

Six years after Ford Motor Co. was forced to return to Ringwood to dig up thousands of tons of toxic paint sludge it had dumped on the mountain, that job is still not finished — and may never be.

Ford has removed nearly five times the amount of pollution it hauled out in previous cleanups of its old dumpsite. But despite government assurances that the work will finally be done right, Ford may once again be allowed to leave contamination in an area that serves as the watershed for 2.5 million North Jersey residents.
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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 12/21/2010 2:00 PM
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Tags: ford motor company ringwood paint sludge north jersey
 

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