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Testing starts Sept. 28 at contaminated Hanover site
http://www.wickedlocal.com/article/20150918/NEWS/150915916/0/breaking_ajaxTesting starts Sept. 28 at contaminated Hanover site
By By Chris Burrell
The Patriot Ledger
Posted Sep. 18, 2015 at 1:42 AM
Updated at 1:45 AM
HANOVER – A new round of environmental testing of the highly contaminated site of a former munitions factory in town is set to begin Sept. 28 at a cost of about $330,000.
The project will collect more than 150 sediment samples from two ponds and two rivers and drill out cores of soil from about 76 different locations around the 280-acre site located in the southwest corner of Hanover.
Overseeing the testing by a private engineering firm is the State Department of Environmental Protection, which designated the former National Fireworks Co. site as Tier 1A, the agency’s most severe because of ecological risks.
More than six decades of munitions manufacturing and explosives testing at the site helped to arm the U.S. military during four wars. It also polluted the soil and water with enough mercury, lead and other chemicals to qualify it as a federal Superfund site. Posted signs warn people not to consume fish caught from the ponds and rivers.