Infrastructure law will fund clean-up at Roebling Steel site - Yahoo News

FLORENCE – A sprawling Superfund site here will get clean-up funds from the nation’s new infrastructure law, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The former Roebling Steel Co. complex, which occupied a heavily polluted site along the Delaware River, is one of seven ‘backlogged’ sites in New Jersey to get Superfund money from the law.

The EPA also will direct infrastructure money to a second Superfund site in Burlington County — a five-acre property that once held Kauffman & Minteer, a tanker truck operation in the Jobstown section of Springfield.

Overall, the EPA will spend $1 billion in infrastructure money for work that was previously unfunded at 49 sites across the country. The agency also will accelerate clean-up efforts at dozens of other sites across the country, it said.

“This funding will be transformational for New Jersey communities impacted by toxic contamination,” Sen. Bob Menendez said Friday in a statement announcing the EPA’s spending plans.

He said clean-up efforts also “will provide critical investments in communities of color and low-income communities, which are disproportionately affected by legacy contamination from abandoned Superfund sites.”

The EPA has not specified how much money will be available for the Burlington County sites.

The agency on Friday said it’s “finalizing cleanup plans and preparing funding mechanisms to get construction work started as soon as possible.”

The Roebling Steel site, which dates to 1904, made steel and wire products before closing in the 1980s, according to an EPA account.

Parts of the site were later used for other industrial operations.

“Soil all around the site is contaminated with heavy metals such as lead, chromium and cadmium," said the EPA, which also noted contamination of groundwater, wetlands and river and creek sediments.

Clean-up activities that began in the 1980s have already resulted in asbestos mitigation at the site, as well as the decontamination and demolition of multiple buildings.

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