New Jersey to Add 15-25 new NPL Superfund Sites Within 5 Years

It has been reported that the state of New Jersey is anticipating adding 15-25 new Superfund Sites within the next five years to the National Priorities List (NPL). For a site to be added to the NPL, a mitre model is used, proportionately weighting the amounts of waste, types of waste, types of waste leaking from the site via groundwater, surface water and air; and the number of residents living within three miles of the site, etc. When all the quotients are added and exceed a threshold, then the site is converted from a proposed site to a final designation. Many of the final sites are older than 100 years of contamination. From old title deeds, some of the responsible parties can be tracked using EFIS’s guide editor; particularly large, public companies being in business for close to a century.