Inspection includes visits to six Superfund sites in Morris, Essex & Sussex counties.

Morristown, NJ -  Joined by U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and senior New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) officials, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11) today continued his annual inspection of Superfund sites in the 11th Congressional District that are currently on the EPA's National Priorities List (NPL).

“It is vital for me to personally visit and evaluate progress being made on Superfund sites in my congressional district,” Frelinghuysen said.  “I make it a point to communicate to both federal and state agencies that we must continue to move in the right direction, expand on the progress that has already been madeand complete these important clean-up projects.”

"New Jersey has more Superfund sites than any other state in the nation but considerable headway has been made,” he added. “Since 1980 when the Superfund program began, 34 sites in New Jersey have been removed from the National Priority List."

Stops on the Congressman’s 2016 Superfund tour include: the Mansfield Trail Dump in Byram Township, Sussex County, Radiation Technology Inc., Rockaway Township, Morris County, Rockaway Township Wells, Rockaway Township, Morris County, Rockaway Borough Well Field, Rockaway Borough, Morris County, Unimatic Manufacturing Corp and Caldwell Trucking in Township of Fairfield, Essex County. 

Currently, 114  Superfund sites are located in New Jersey, including 10 in the 11th Congressional District. 

Frelinghuysen is being joined on the tour by Catherine McCabe, Deputy Regional Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency Region 2, state NJDEP representatives and legislators and local elected officials.

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