Contamination Tests Planned for Below Pompton Lake Dam
The federal Environmental Protection Agency said "very, very low concentrations of lead" were found in sediment at the bottom of Pompton Lake.
Authorities will test samples taken from the Ramapo River to ensure that no significant amount of contaminants exist in the lower part of the Ramapo River past Pompton Lake Dam. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ordered the testing after it found “very very low concentrations of lead” in sediment taken from the bottom of the lake, said Phillip Flax, chief of the EPA’s correction action and special projects section. The EPA has ordered DuPont to remove 100,000 cubic yards of sediment from part of the lake where mercury, lead, and copper seeped into for years from the company’s former explosives factory. The eastern part of the lake borders Wayne. A 2011 study of sediment from the lake found contaminated sediment in downstream parts …
Elizabeth Taylor
5:44 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
I've seen some two headed ducks swimming there lately more ›