Published in the Asbury Park Press
By JEAN MIKLE
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
DOVER TOWNSHIP -- The federal Environmental Protection Agency will hold a meeting at 2 p.m. today at the former Ciba-Geigy Corp. Superfund site to launch the second phase of the site cleanup there.
The formal program will be held from 2 to 3 p.m., and will be followed by a public availability session from 3 to 5 p.m. Entrance to the Ciba site is off Oak Ridge Parkway.
EPA officials announced in September 2001 that bioremediation would be the main cleanup method at the Ciba site, where industrial dyes and resins were manufactured from the early '50s until December 1996.
Bioremediation uses bacteria existing on the site to consume bacteria. Some 200,000 cubic yards of polluted soil will be dug up, treated to remove contaminants and placed back on the site.
About 35,000 drums of chemical waste will be removed from an unlined landfill on the property, tested to determine their contents and taken off-site for treatment and disposal.
Cleanup work on the property is expected to begin by late this year or early next year.
Published in the Asbury Park Press 10/22/03
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