[CPEO-BIF] Hopewell Borough (NJ) homeowners want buy-out

[Lenny Siegel]

Responsible buyer wanted

BY DARRYL R. ISHERWOOD
Trenton Times (NJ)
October 1, 2006

HOPEWELL BOROUGH -- Brenda Goeke thought she had found the house of her 
dreams: a two-bedroom bungalow on a quiet street in desirable Hopewell 
Borough. Little did she know that her Somerset Street home was sitting 
on millions of gallons of polluted groundwater that could take decades 
to clean up.

Now Goeke, along with neighbors of the former Rockwell Industries plant 
that polluted the land, want the company to buy out their homes because 
they charge that the contamination has turned their slice of bucolic 
Mercer County into a worthless investment that no one will want to buy 
-- at least not for years to come.

"The bottom line is, the reason I can't sell my house is the 
contamination," said Goeke, whose home will sit next door to the 
soon-to-be built toxic groundwater filtration plant. She said she has 
been trying to sell her home at 29 Somerset St. for nearly six months. 
"It's worthless on the market. How could it not be with all that has 
gone on."

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-- 
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org