Criminal Charges Being Probed by 2 NJ Republicans
A NJ Assemblyman and NJ State Senator are pushing the state into conducting a criminal investigation into the PCB-tainted concrete debris that was sold by Ford to Edgewood Properties for use as fill. So who is responsible for this contamination?
The tainted fill was used by the developer in several projects in the state in buildings that would have housed senior citizens, families, offices and daycare. Senator Peter A. Inverso and Assemblyman Bill Baroni, both Republicans, are the politicians pushing for the investigation.
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?