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South Jersey Clothing Company
Buena Borough, NJ

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EPA added the South Jersey Clothing Company (SJCC) site in Buena Borough, New Jersey (Atlantic County) to the Superfund National Priorities List on October 4, 1989, because of harmful chemicals present at the site. The SJCC site, which manufactured military uniforms, lies some 500 feet north of the Garden State Cleaners Superfund site, and EPA combined its cleanup and monitoring of the sites due to similar contamination and close proximity.

Preliminary studies of soil and ground water at the SJCC site by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection detected high levels of volatile organic compounds, some that can cause liver and kidney damage in humans. The presence of these chemicals prompted Buena Borough to close wells and construct a new municipal water system. Tests concluded that using the contaminated ground water for domestic and agricultural purposes may pose a human health risk.

Cleanup of the contaminated soil at the SJCC was completed in 2001 and a ground water treatment system for both sites has been operating since 1999. EPA continues to monitor soil and ground water at the two sites.

 

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