May 20, 2007 - A developer is weeks from breaking ground on more than 700 homes at the former Curtiss-Wright engine plant, six years after the site was sold with a deed restriction that made it clear: People cannot live here.
The work on the $500 million Wesmont Station neighborhood in Wood-Ridge will begin amid a continuing cleanup that so far has cost at least $27.5 million. The state Department of Environmental Protection has given the developer approval to build in phases, using a clean-as-you-go approach, and some areas are in fact considered up to residential standards.
But DEP and other public records obtained by The Record indicate there are questions about the cancer-causing contaminants left in a former landfill and in other yet-to-be-approved areas where housing is planned. The pollutants also are in nearby groundwater.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
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