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Edison residents concerned with the tainted debris at the Ford site, are invited to a meeting on March 16 at 7 pm at the Pines Manor, Route 27, Edison. This meeting was organized by Sen. Barbara Buono.
Anyone attending the meeting who would like to provide a coherent, informative summary of the meeting, please feel free to comment.
Read the full Star-Ledger story.
Ford sold the debris to Jack Morris' Edgewood Properties. Ford said that Edgewood was warned that the fill was contaminated with PCBs. An anonymous tip in the fall of 2005 led to the DEP to look into the situation. About the same time, Edgewood also contacted the DEP to report the contamination, and recently Ford filed a plan with the DEP and is busy cleaning up the sites where the contaminated fill was used. In my opinion, Ford is trying to minimize its risk in this fiasco.What remains to be answered is did Edgewood know the fill they used in their building sites was not approved for this use? Ford says that Edgewood was adequately warned, and Edgewood says that it had no idea. Let's hope that Inverso ad Baroni stay on top of this investigation. If Edgewood had full knowledge of this tainted fill and used it in its building projects, what else have they done that we don't know about? And....what other developers also bought this tainted fill, and what did they do with it? Wouldn't you like to know?
Ford says it has receipts for the sale of the non-contaminated concrete to Edgewood and also for the tainted stuff, too. I want to know what was the weight of both purchases, and what was the combined weight removed from the building projects? Did the total weight exceed the weight of the non-tainted stuff that was purchased? Mmmmmmmmmmmm.....