Work continues
at Garfield Avenue site

JERSEY CITY, N.J. July 16, 2010 – Work continues at the Garfield Avenue site and initial cleanup operations will be fully under way later this month.

Excavation of impacted materials has begun in certain limited ways and this activity will expand during the next several weeks. Yesterday the sidewalk on Garfield Avenue adjacent to the site was closed to pedestrians.

Upcoming activities and events include:

• Demolition of certain areas of the 900 Garfield Avenue concrete slab is likely to begin as soon as July 19th;

• An operational test of the procedures for removing debris and excavated materials via truck is scheduled for Tuesday July 20th with approximately 500 tons of impacted materials scheduled to be transported off site that day.

• Daily removal of excavated soils and debris will likely begin the week of July 26.

Trucks hauling impacted materials from the site will exit the site on Carteret Street and turn left toward Halladay Street where they will turn right and proceed to Caven Point Road. From Caven Point, trucks will turn left on Garfield Avenue and travel to Bayview to access the turnpike. All loads with impacted materials will be lined and securely covered. Trucks will be washed twice before they leave the site so that no impacted material that may have been on the trucks outside of the liner will leave the site.

The scheduled operating hours for cleanup activities are 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. weekdays and on occasional Saturdays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


This is one of the portable air monitoring stations that has been installed by PPG Industries at the Garfield Avenue site.

Air monitors
up and running
at Garfield site



JERSEY CITY, N.J., July 16, 2010 – Air monitoring stations at the Garfield Avenue site are up and running as PPG Industries prepares to begin initial cleanup activities.

To prevent excavated materials, including hexavalent chromium, from becoming airborne during the cleanup, PPG is implementing a dust-suppression plan that has been approved by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection following a review by the independent technical consultant. Elements of the dust-suppression plan include water misting of work areas and restricting truck traffic to paved areas.

The air monitoring equipment that was installed in June includes fixed and portable air monitoring stations. This equipment will continuously check to ensure safe conditions are maintained during cleanup activities as part of a NJDEP approved plan designed to protect community health.

Full-time dedicated air monitoring technicians will track the measurements from the monitors, which will be compared to air action levels that determine if and when additional dust- suppression measures are to be implemented or work must be halted if that is required.

Some of the monitors on site will only be used while work is taking place but others will be operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Data from all of these monitors will be posted to this website soon and throughout the duration of the cleanup.