EPA Proposes Plan to Clean up Groundwater at Superfund Site in Newfield, N.J.

Public Meeting to be Held August 12

(New York, N.Y. – July 30, 2015) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed modifications to the plan to address contaminated groundwater at the Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp. site in Newfield and Vineland, N.J. A plan originally put into place by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection when it was mainly responsible for the site had required a system that pumps the groundwater out of the ground and treats it. The new EPA plan proposed today instead calls for using non-hazardous additives to treat the groundwater and break down the contaminants and then allow the contaminants to naturally decline while monitoring them.