And they're also worried because there's no schedule yet for the testing and cleanup of the site, which authorities believe to be an area where the town regularly dumped and burned trash in the 1950s.
Last fall David and Julie Gesner moved out of their yellow two-story Colonial at 156 Pine St. after discovering high levels of lead, arsenic, chromium and cadmium in the soil when they investigated local rumors that their property had been the site of a landfill where garbage and debris were routinely burned.
The Gesners notified the state Department of Environmental Protection and last month the agency ordered a cleanup of the site, including testing to determine the extent of contamination. The town, as well as the Gesners and Manchester resident Michael Bresnahan, who sold them the house, were all named as parties potentially responsible for the cleanup.
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My community in California has a similar toxic landfill in its backyard and the County is proposing a rock quarry directly next to it.
Naturally the neighbors are extremely worried and I am wondering if anyone has an example such as this?
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