Published in the Asbury Park Press
By MARGARET BONAFIDE
STAFF WRITER
TOMS RIVER -- The Dover Township Committee last night approved spending $233,000 more on the landfill test well program, bringing the total amount spent on testing the municipal landfill to $765,000.
The contract Dan Raviv Associates Inc., which was executed in July 1997 for a maximum amount of $114,000, has been amended several times.
Committeeman George E. Wittmann Jr. told Maria Nicola, a Silverton resident, the remediation of the landfill consists of determining if the landfill leaching toxic chemicals into the well water of surrounding neighborhoods.
"Based on the numbers we are finding (in the testing) of the landfill, it doesn't reflect a need for any further remediation," Wittmann said.
The water that is being tested from area wells is coming in "at almost drinking water quality" with only nine of 900 chemicals testing positive, he said.
"In order to fix a problem we have to determine there is a problem," he said. "There doesn't appear to be a need for further remediation" of the contamination found formerly in the wells in the surrounding neighborhoods.
According to the resolution the committee approved, the state Department of Environmental Protection identified additional work that would be required to complete groundwater delineation and monitoring.
The change order to the contract will provide for drilling wells "to establish a comprehensive network for long-term monitoring in support of a natural remediation proposal."
The former landfill has become the focus of concern for surrounding neighborhoods because of a garbage transfer station proposed to be built near the landfill.
Sharon Miller, an opponent to the transfer station, is circulating a petition which includes a 1995 report from Killam Associates and Consulting Engineers which said the transfer station would not be cost-saving based on its feasibility study.
Source: Asbury Park Press
Published: August 25, 1999
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