NEWARK - Monitoring of contaminants at the Diamond Alkali Superfund site continues, as negotiations to determine who is responsible for cleaning up the location and funding that cleanup remain slow-moving.

The federal government shutdown, coupled with recent news of corporate reorganization at Occidental Chemical Corporation (OCC) – the corporation that Newark City Council and other parties believe is legally responsible for the intentional discharges of highly toxic chemicals into the Passaic River – has seemed to stall negotiations.

Consultants and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) project managers provided updates on Diamond Alkali and Riverside Industrial Park –both in Newark – and presented a habitat survey evaluation during the Passaic River Community Advisory Group’s (CAG) M

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