By ROBERT SPIEGEL IN THE FALL of 2004, I was asked by U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg's office to attend a public hearing in Upper Ringwood on the cleanup of a delisted local Superfund site.

By Jan Barry, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Jan. 18--Ford paint sludge that was buried in Upper Ringwood lawns leached toxic lead at 20 times the federal standard for dangerous waste.