The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has named a 19-mile stretch of the Hackensack River in northern New Jersey to its list of Superfund sites.
FILE - A New Jersey Transit train rides across a portal bridge over the Hackensack River, Friday, Nov. 14, 2014, in Kearny, N.J. Sediment in a 19-mile stretch of the Hackensack River in northern New Jersey has traces of arsenic, lead and other contaminants and is being named as a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund site, federal and state regulators said Thursday.
The listing, which must still be finalized, means that the site will undergo a clean-up process, funded by still unidentified responsible parties, but that could take years. “It’s a mark of our resolve and acknowledgement that modern society for all it’s advances and conveniences also produces environmental ills,” he said.
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