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I believe this is by Garfield Ave? Thank god I used to live on Sherman place..Hopefully I lived further enough away to not get cancer. Just another negative thing about JC.
There was an article in the paper about it a few weeks ago - I'd be very interested to hear some first hand observations of the site.
Which site?
There was more than one place where chromium was dumped.
While the most notorious site was where the old Roosevelt Drive-In Movie Theater was located, the adjacent Pathmark/K-Mart site was also used for chromium dumping, as were smaller plots of land in other parts of JC. I wouldn't be surprised if many other lots along Rt. 440 were also used for this dumping.
The companies that refined chromium in Jersey City actually "distributed" it all over that city and even in some adjacent cities. I recall digging in the backyard of my parents' new home in Bayonne in 1967, and coming upon a bright yellow mass of material that had apparently been part of the fill used by the contractor. The bright yellow material was surely chromium, but none of us knew at the time that this was very hazardous stuff.
Wow, I just came on here to browse and I saw the name hexavalent chromium. I was an environmental chemist for a few years before becoming a chemistry teacher, I have some background on this compound. Sorry to hear that this is a threat in your area. God bless you.
Which site?
There was more than one place where chromium was dumped.
The main site was a place where they brought the chrome ore in, alkalized it, aerated it, leached out most of the resulting sodium dichromate, then dumped the tailings.
There are also former chrome plating shops...plenty of contamination there, but orders of magnitude smaller.
Which site?
There was more than one place where chromium was dumped.
While the most notorious site was where the old Roosevelt Drive-In Movie Theater was located, the adjacent Pathmark/K-Mart site was also used for chromium dumping, as were smaller plots of land in other parts of JC. I wouldn't be surprised if many other lots along Rt. 440 were also used for this dumping.
The companies that refined chromium in Jersey City actually "distributed" it all over that city and even in some adjacent cities. I recall digging in the backyard of my parents' new home in Bayonne in 1967, and coming upon a bright yellow mass of material that had apparently been part of the fill used by the contractor. The bright yellow material was surely chromium, but none of us knew at the time that this was very hazardous stuff.
may i ask where this was in Bayonne? you, i'm guessing, grew up in one of the 60's era 2 family homes, garage at basement level, that you see in abundance on the north side of west 7th street for instance.
ok, wait, in rereading your post, it looks the contractor used the material as opposed to it being there prior to groundbreaking. my bad. still interested in the location though!
may i ask where this was in Bayonne? you, i'm guessing, grew up in one of the 60's era 2 family homes, garage at basement level, that you see in abundance on the north side of west 7th street for instance.
ok, wait, in rereading your post, it looks the contractor used the material as opposed to it being there prior to groundbreaking. my bad. still interested in the location though!
Yes, to Jersey City. What an ugly mess. You can see it right from the light rail station
I used to have a map issued from the city of JC that listed all the chromium sites in JC. 2 quick bits, I had the security contract on guarding the old Great Eastern site on Rt. 440 that is known as the worst or one of the worst chromium dump sites in the USA. It goes from Rt.440 to the Hackensack River or the start of Newark Bay. You could see the green chromium actually leaking from the sitelooking like a stream directly into the river. This was going on for decades. The cleanup lasted for about 5 years. Another story, in the basement of the lod Coleman sporting goods store on a call and u could see the green chromium actually dripping, leaking out of most of the cinderblocks onto the floor. Many, many city lots were filled with chromium fill and the people r still unaware of it. Besides a dump in the country of Ukraine the next largest dump site was our beautiful city of JC.
I used to have a map issued from the city of JC that listed all the chromium sites in JC. 2 quick bits, I had the security contract on guarding the old Great Eastern site on Rt. 440 that is known as the worst or one of the worst chromium dump sites in the USA. It goes from Rt.440 to the Hackensack River or the start of Newark Bay. You could see the green chromium actually leaking from the sitelooking like a stream directly into the river. This was going on for decades. The cleanup lasted for about 5 years. Another story, in the basement of the lod Coleman sporting goods store on a call and u could see the green chromium actually dripping, leaking out of most of the cinderblocks onto the floor. Many, many city lots were filled with chromium fill and the people r still unaware of it. Besides a dump in the country of Ukraine the next largest dump site was our beautiful city of JC.
was there green chromium in my pu pu platter at Paradise East?!?!
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