EPA Holding Info Session On Rolling Knolls Landfill Clean Up

CHATHAM, NJ — The EPA will hold two informal hearings on a proposed clean up of the Rolling Knolls Landfill Superfund site next month.

The informal session is a chance for locals to learn more about the cleanup and to voice their thoughts before a formal plan proposal meeting is held later this summer. Both informal meetings will be held on June 4 at the Chatham Township Municipal building. One will run from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., and a second will run from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Rolling Knolls Landfill is a nearly 200-acre area in the Green Village section of Chatham that was used as an unlined landfill for 30 years. Until 1968, the landfill was filled with "construction and demolition debris, household refuse and scrap metal," the EPA says. That dumping "contaminated soil, sediment, surface water and groundwater with metals, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pesticides, freon compounds and volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs)."

A final clean-up plan will be based on the findings of a site investigation.

For more information, contact Pat Seppi, EPA’s Community Liaison, at (646) 369-0068 or by email at seppi.pat@epa.gov.

Image via Shutterstock. Not a photo of the landfill.