Are Capped Contaminated Sites Safe?

This is a good article from New Jersey that addresses an extremely important question: are sites that are deemed remediated really safe? I think most people have no idea what it means when they are told a contaminated site has been remediated or cleand up.

Here's the article:
Condos in Edgewater. High-rises in North Bergen. Schools in Paterson.

All sitting atop toxic chemicals.

Separated, in most cases, by a few feet of dirt, inches of asphalt or a thin plastic liner.

In North Jersey, this is the new definition of clean: Thousands of people living, working and playing on properties where pollution has been "capped" -- buried under pavement or dirt rather than removed. More . . .