EPA Calls For 3 NJ Sites to Be Closed Due to Lead

[fishinfool]

EPA Calls For 3 NJ Sites to Be Closed Due to Lead

SAYREVILLE, N.J. (AP) -- The federal Environmental Protection Agency has called for closing three sites along Raritan Bay because of high lead levels.

The EPA says it found contaminated soil at a beach in Sayreville and at two spots in Old Bridge. One is near the Laurence Harbor sea wall and the other is around a popular fishing jetty near Cheesequake Creek.

Officials say they're working to put up signs and fences to close the areas.

Mayors of Sayreville and Old Bridge are blaming a pigment plant that operated in the area until about 20 years ago. The EPA has not said who caused the pollution.

Lead exposure has been linked to neurological damage, kidney disease and other major health issues.

[IrishAyes]

Nice find. 

Too many chemical plants from years ago were allowed to contaminate their area and then just walk away leaving their mess for others to deal with. Let's hope they can find who contaminated these areas and make them pay the price. Don't hold your breath on that though. 

[Luna Sea 5]

 

[wb]

lots of spots for flatties up that way
the lead must be fattenin dem up mmmmmmmmmmmm 

[ped579]

Nice find Rach, it is a shame that companies are so oblivious tot he facts of pollution.  It was and still is all about the bottom line.  I can remember back in the early 80's a professor I had for Oceanography Dr. Stu Farrell was experimenting with IR photography to find the source poluton of the chemical plant that is now closed that was literally pumping raw by products right into the river.

Lead is not good...   Just another nail in the coffin so to speak.  That is one major reason I C&R.

[Kenny]

I hate hearing stories like that.

[fishinfool]

I hate hearing stories like that.

ME TOO

[catfish hunter]

couple years back we had a fish tank w/ anything we found in the river ,baby bass ,turtles, catfish,eels .one day while checking my traps We found this nice silver looking rocks ,well we put it in our tank and by the next morning every single thing was dead .

on a side note ,I been eating fish from this area all my life and there is nothing wrong w/ me .    yet

[Noworries2009]

Anybody remember National Lead, Dutch Boy Paints used to be on the Raritan right near the Parkway bridge with huge open drainage and retaining ponds of different colors years ago. Maybe not sure......

[catfish hunter]

some of those ponds are still there ,look to the right as you go over the parkway bridge heading south

[Vinnym]

  Good info but bad news. Thanks for the post.

[Vinnym]

Nice find Rach, it is a shame that companies are so oblivious tot he facts of pollution.  It was and still is all about the bottom line.  I can remember back in the early 80's a professor I had for Oceanography Dr. Stu Farrell was experimenting with IR photography to find the source poluton of the chemical plant that is now closed that was literally pumping raw by products right into the river.

Lead is not good...   Just another nail in the coffin so to speak.  That is one major reason I C&R.

Paul, Did you happen to go to Stockton? Stu Farrell is a familiar name.

[gottog]

More bad news about sewage getting into the bay too:

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/95682/concerns-raised-over-sewage-runoff/Default.aspx?ap=1&Flash

[wb]

there is nothing wrong w/ me .    yet

as chevy chase would say

as far as you know

[ped579]

Hey Vinnym,

As a matter of fact I did.  great school.

Graduated there in 85 after 20 years after graduating HS.  Great experience and He was a great teacher that sort of took me under his wing for a while.  I haven't talked with him in years.

[Vinnym]

Hey Vinnym,

As a matter of fact I did.  great school.

Graduated there in 85 after 20 years after graduating HS.  Great experience and He was a great teacher that sort of took me under his wing for a while.  I haven't talked with him in years.

I graduated in '81. I went for Environmental Science. I didn't have him as a professor but I did know him. I haven't seen him either. Stockton is a great school.

[The Broken One]

this wont bode well for the charter and party boat guys, or for that  atter ANYONE who fishes back there.... If thise fish samples come back hot how does one take customers back there to fish without telling them the fish will harm them

[kezsr]

always fish back there,the fish are most delicious and put lead in your ass.

[gottog]

Plus you have all the commercial guys, crabbers from NY and NJ, dredgers for crabs in the bay, Belford boats...plus all the baitfish in the area, migrating fish, birds, marine creatures and the juvenile fish populations coming from there...EVERYTHING will be tainted and not just in the back or even just in the bay!

[catfish hunter]

Plus you have all the commercial guys, crabbers from NY and NJ, dredgers for crabs in the bay, Belford boats...plus all the baitfish in the area, migrating fish, birds, marine creatures and the juvenile fish populations coming from there...EVERYTHING will be tainted and not just in the back or even just in the bay!

I didnt even think of that ,the crab guys are in there all season long.I wouldnt eat crabs this year .