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Article: EPA reaches agreement with ford motor company to reinvestigate New Jersey site.(Environmental Protection Agency)(Ford Motor Co.)
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- Coatings World
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached an agreement with the Ford Motor Company, requiring Ford to reevaluate the extent of contamination remaining at the Ringwood Mines/Landfill Superfund site located in Ringwood, NJ. Ford has removed more than 13,000 tons of waste materials from the site, including heavy metals, VOCs and low levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). EPA has determined that further investigation of the contamination is necessary because additional wastes have been found at the site.
The approximately 455-acre site operated as an iron mine from the 1700s through the 1930s. In 1965, a subsidiary of Ford purchased property in ...