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Community Relations Community Relations Site List Cleaveland Industrial Center
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Cleaveland Industrial Center
20 Parker Road
Washington Township, Morris County
PI #:
026256
BLOCK: 60 LOT: 14
Community Relations Coordinator: Mark Herzberg (609) 633-1369
SITE DESCRIPTION/RESOLUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS:As
of 28 June 2004
Cleaveland Industrial Center has a history of industrial operations dating
back more than five decades. The U.S. government manufactured explosives
at the site during the 1940s. The property was sold to a private company
in 1947 and it has operated as an industrial park since the 1950s. A tenant
that manufactured sodium and iodine salts reportedly discharged its process
waste water directly onto the ground behind the complex. Another tenant,
Lanterman Machine and Tools, Inc., allegedly discharged hazardous wastes
into septic systems. Fabritex Mills abandoned approximately 1,000 containers
of chemicals, including flammable solvents, caustics, dry chemicals and
laboratory reagents, when it ceased operations at the site in 1986. During
the 1980s, sampling of private potable wells in the area revealed that
17 were contaminated with volatile organic compounds at levels exceeding
New Jersey Drinking Water Standards. Point-of-Entry Treatment (POET) systems
were installed on the wells with funds provided by NJDEP as an interim
measure to supply potable water for the residents. A preliminary investigation
by NJDEP indicated that contaminated ground water was migrating from the
site. USEPA implemented a removal action in 1991 to dispose of the chemicals
left at the buildings formerly occupied by Fabritex Mills. Between 1993
and 1997, the Washington Township Municipal Utilities Authority used funds
provided by NJDEP to extend public water lines to the residences with
contaminated wells and approximately 170 additional properties with wells
that were at risk of becoming contaminated. In 1999, NJDEP’s Remedial
Response Element began a Remedial Investigation and a Remedial Action
Selection (RI/RAS) to delineate the contamination at the industrial park
and off-site areas and evaluate cleanup alternatives. NJDEP implemented
an Interim Remedial Measure (IRM) the following year to remove all of
the abandoned above ground and underground storage tanks. NJDEP is sampling
soil and installing on-site and off-site monitor wells to delineate the
contamination.
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