Plan Proposed to Remove Toxic Sediment from Passaic River, Largest Cleanup in EPA History | 2014-04-14 | Pollution Engineering

The EPA proposed a plan to remove 4.3 million cubic yards of highly contaminated sediment from the lower eight miles of the Passaic River in New Jersey. The sediment in the Passaic River is severely contaminated with dioxin, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), heavy metals, pesticides and other contaminants from more than a century of industrial activity. The lower eight miles of the Passaic is the most heavily contaminated section of the river. Ninety percent of the volume of contaminated sediments in the lower Passaic are in the lower eight miles of the river.

The EPA is proposing bank-to-bank dredging – one of the largest volumes ever to be dredged under the EPA’s Superfund program – followed by capping of the river bottom.



Plan Proposed to Remove Toxic Sediment from Passaic River, Largest Cleanup in EPA History | 2014-04-14 | Pollution Engineering