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Quanta Resources Corporation
Edgewater, NJ

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EPA added the Quanta Resources Corporation site in Edgewater, New Jersey (Bergen County) to the Superfund National Priorities List on September 5, 2002 because of harmful chemicals present at and near the site. For close to 100 years starting in the late 1800s, coal tar, paving and roofing materials were manufactured at the site by various entities. Quanta Resources operated at an oil processing facility there from 1974 to 1981, when the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection closed the site after discovering large quantities of PCB-laden oil in storage tanks.

Ground water and soils at the Quanta site are contaminated with arsenic, chromium, lead and harmful chemicals, all of which can pose significant threats to human health. A plume of coal tar creosote, a thick, oily liquid used in roofing and paving that has been classified as a probable carcinogen, exists beneath the site and several adjacent properties, and extends into the Hudson River. Removal of some of the contamination by EPA addressed immediate human health threats, but recreation in and consumption of some fish from the Hudson is not recommended.

EPA continues to research and carry out the best ways to remove contamination from the ground water and soils at the Quanta site as well as from the Hudson River.

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