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Army Corps to Keep Hauling Tainted Maywood, N.J., Soil to Utah.
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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September 30, 2003
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By Tom Davis, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 30--The Army Corps of Engineers has rejected a plan to treat thorium-tainted soil from the Maywood Superfund site locally and will keep sending it to Utah.
At the Maywood Superfund site, the federal government will leave no contaminated soil behind.
Bowing to public opposition, the Army Corps of Engineers announced Monday that it has rejected a $244 million proposal to treat thorium-laced soil locally and keep tons of it in Maywood.
Instead, the Army corps will continue to do what it has been doing for years: Dig up soil from Maywood, Lodi, and Rochelle Park sites ...