[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, RADIATION: "Maywood Superfund excavation work will shut some streets in Lodi [NJ] this week"

[Lenny Siegel]

Maywood Superfund excavation work will shut some streets in Lodi this week

By Katie Sobko
NorthJersey.com
March 16, 2021

LODI — Street closures are expected in the borough this week as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers removes contaminated soil as part of the cleanup of the Maywood Superfund site.

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The program in effect in Lodi is known as the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program. It was established by the federal government in 1974 to clean up low-level radioactive contamination from the nation’s early atomic research program.

There are more than 60 such sites across the country. Many have been completed and are subject to long-term monitoring. Others are in the process of being cleaned up. The Maywood site is one of these active sites. The primary contaminant of concern at the Maywood Site is thorium, a naturally occurring radioactive ore that can increase cancer risk. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/lodi/2021/03/16/lodi-nj-streets-closed-amid-maywood-superfund-site-work-proceeds/4703164001/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
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