US EPA starts clean-up work at New Jersey river

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has started clean-up work to remove contaminated sediment from an area of the Passaic River near the Diamond Alkali site in New Jersey, US.

The EPA will work in collaboration with the US Army Corps of Engineers to carry out the work, which is being funded and performed by Tierra Solutions.

In the first phase of the project, 40,000 cubic yards of the highly contaminated, dioxin-laden sediment will be removed and piped to a processing facility to be dewatered for disposal.

Approximately 160,000 cubic yards of sediment with lower concentrations of dioxin will be removed in phase II.