“Right now it’s still a subterranean detective story,” said Rich Puvogel, an EPA official investigating groundwater contamination at the site. “Our job is to find the nature and extent of the plume.”
The EPA’s effort is an attempt to rectify one of the state Department of Environmental Protection’s worst failures. Almost 3 tons of chromium spilled from an outdoor tank at the plant in 1983. Despite overwhelming evidence that the toxic metal had spread into the surrounding neighborhood, the DEP suspended the cleanup less than two years later after only 30 percent was recovered.
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