Saturday, January 19, 2008

At Some Superfund Sites, Toxic Legacies Linger

Like many Superfund sites in New Jersey and elsewhere in the New York City area, it has an intriguing history that is hard to trace — mobsters reportedly owned one business here before abandoning it abruptly years ago. In 1981 a brush fire exposed 70 drums containing silver cyanide and other chemicals.

To read the full NY Times article "At Some Superfund Sites, Toxic Legacies Linger" click here.

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