Cement Plant Officials Deny Causing PCEs
Posted on: Friday, 21 April 2006, 15:00 CDT
By Naomi Mueller, Asbury Park Press, N.J.
Apr. 21--BRICK -- Contaminants found in the Metedeconk River are not from the Stavola asphalt and cement plant, Stavola representatives told the Township Council this week.
The comments were made six weeks after officials from the Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority told the council that the cement plant site, which was purchased by Stavola in 2002, may be the source of perchloroethylenes, or PCEs, a suspected human carcinogen, found in the Metedeconk River.
The authority, which provides water to Brick, Point Pleasant Beach and Point Pleasant, gets 70 percent of its water from the river.
Yet an environmental consultant hired by Stavola said that because the PCEs are found upstream of the Stavola plant, they must be originating from elsewhere. In addition, Elizabeth Davis, the company's remediation expert, told the council that samples taken in October 2002 from monitoring wells on the Stavola site found no evidence of PCEs.
Although careful to say that they could not prove the PCEs were coming from the asphalt plant, authority officials also said they could not rule it out. At the time, officials said water samples taken from a site near the asphalt plant had more than 20 times the allowable amount of PCEs.
They also said that the contaminant usually is gone by the time it reaches the authority's intake valve.
Davis also said PCEs, once widely used as a solvent and metal degreaser, were never used by Stavola and primarily are found on the site of former dry cleaners.
The company's engineering expert, Timothy Lurie, also testified before the council Tuesday.
He spoke about Stavola's stormwater management system.
In March, Stavola filed a complaint against the Brick Zoning Board.
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