2019 July - Over two very hot and humid days during the summer of 2019, Mr. Jim Beckerman, reporter for New Jersey Record, walked most of the 18 miles of the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway with Mr. Don Stitzenberg, President of the Hudson River Waterfront Conservancy (HRWC).  Read Mr. Beckerman's report and watch the video. Video is at the top.  There will be ads before the video. :(

From: Natalie Loney

Community Involvement Coordinator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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New York NY 10007
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Subject: Quanta Update- Week of June17, 2019

With the restart of the cleanup work at the Quanta site in Edgewater, New Jersey, EPA will be sending periodic updates to the community about activities at the site. Honeywell’s contractors have started soil solidification within the tent closest to City Place. Air handlers and filtration units on the tent structure are in full operation to provide effective carbon filtration of naphthalene and other VOCs prior to releasing the air to the environment.

Honeywell’s contractors are currently moving stockpiled soil into the tent for soil mixing.  There is a potential for releases of vapors, especially during warmer days, when the flap of the poly cover of the stockpile is lifted to allow the excavator bucket to access the soil and when the soil is transported from the stockpile area to the adjacent tent. Air monitoring data from June 3 indicated a detection of 6 µg/m³ naphthalene at perimeter air monitor FD01 and on June 4, 6 µg/m³ at perimeter monitor FD02. These monitors are affixed to the fence approximately 20 feet from the stockpile and the tent. The EPA Quanta project team has reviewed the perimeter fence line and residential monitoring results since the start of Phase 2 of the project and is confident that these detections were a result of transport of soil and brief repositioning of the stockpile cover in close proximity to the monitors. Naphthalene has not been detected at any residential property or other fenceline monitoring points.

Please note that on Saturday, June 15th, workers will be on site to continue installation of the tent along the bulkhead in preparation for remedial activities in that area.

A friendly reminder that a hotline has been established for residents to report concerns 24 hours a day, seven days a week. During hours when work is being conducted at the site, the information will be relayed to a supervisor at the site and to EPA. The hotline number is (201) 807-0991.

Subject: Quanta Update for the week of June  3, 2019

With the restart of the cleanup work at the Quanta site in Edgewater, New Jersey, EPA will be sending periodic updates to the community about activities at the site.  Honeywell’s contractors have completed construction of the tent closest to City Place and have started remedial activities within the tent.  Construction of the tent along the bulkhead is continuing and activities within the tent will start in approximately 3 weeks.