At Some Superfund Sites, Toxic Legacies Linger

In The New York Times
Like many Superfund sites in New Jersey and elsewhere in the New York City area, it has an intriguing history that is hard to trace — mobsters reportedly owned one business here before abandoning it abruptly years ago. In 1981 a brush fire exposed 70 drums containing silver cyanide and other dangerous chemicals.

This 12-acre site is among the 114 hazardous waste sites in New Jersey on the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List, which includes about 1,200 sites nationwide that the agency has determined present a “significant risk to human health or the environment.”

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