Where Are The Worst Contaminated Sites In Bergen County? [MAP]

There are hundreds of properties in Bergen County with confirmed cases of contamination, and some of those are listed as having an immediate environmental concern with the state Department of Environmental Protection.

See the embedded Google map for information on exactly where the active sites with confirmed contamination in Bergen County are.

The following sites are listed with the state as having an immediate environmental concern, which means they either contain a contaminated well that is at or above state standards, contaminated indoor air that exceeds state standards, or contamination in a confined space that produces a toxic or harmful atmosphere resulting in an unacceptable human health exposure.

East Rutherford: 1

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: BTF Corp.

Edgewater: 2

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Quanta Resources Corp.

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: J. Fletcher Creamer & Son Inc.

Elmwood Park: 2

Type: Potable Wall Contamination and Vapor Intrusion, Empire Overall Dry Cleaners

Type: Potable Wall Contamination, Source: Stor Dynamics Corp.

Emerson: 1

Type: Potable Wall Contamination, Source: Hackensack WC Emerson Well

Fair Lawn: 2

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Unified Data Products

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Topps Dry Cleaners

Fort Lee: 1

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Zhana Cleaners

Garfield: 4

Type: Potable Wall Contamination, Source: Garfield City Garage

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Presto Lock Inc.

Type: Direct Contact, Source: EC Electroplating Inc.

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source Garofalo Brothers

Glen Rock: 1

Type: Potable Wall Contamination, Source: Ridgewood Water Department

Hillsdale: 1

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Alexander Cleaners Inc.

Leonia: 1

(Type and source information for Leonia’s site was not available)

Little Ferry: 1

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: JS Popper Inc.

Lodi: 1

Type: Potable Wall Contamination, Source: Unknown, Receptor’s name: Lodi Municipal Westfield Contamination

Mahwah: 1

Type: Potable Wall Contamination, Source: Unknown, Receptor’s name: Mahwah Township Department of Public Works

Midland Park: 1

Type: Potable Wall Contamination, Source: International Wire Products

Moonachie: 1

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Melnor Industries Inc.

Northvale: 3

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Flexbar Corp.

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Danzig Floor Machine Corp.

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Multimatic Corp.

Paramus: 2

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source Delta

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Forest Cleaners

Park Ridge: 1

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Not listed (case name is Kinderkamack Road and Wayne Street)

Control Status: Unknown

Ramsey: 1

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: LEEM Filtration Products Inc.

Ridgewood: 4

Type: Potable Well Contamination, Source: Not listed (case name is Ridgewood Village Water Department, Grove Street Well)

Type: Potable Well Contamination, Source: Not listed (case name is Ridgewood Village Water Department, West End Avenue Well

Type: Potable Well Contamination, Source: Not listed (case name is Ridgewood Water Department Walthery and Twinney

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: 46 Chestnut St.

River Edge: 1

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: River Edge Plaza

Saddle Brook: 1

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Susan’s Cleaner’s, Source Control Status: In Progress

Saddle River: 1

Type: Potable Wall Contamination, Source, not listed, but case name is Burning Hollow Road, ground water contamination, Source Control Status: Unknown

Tenafly: 1

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Marco’s Tenafly Service Station

Teterboro: 1

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Catena Wholesale Property

Waldwick: 4

Type: Potable Wall Contamination, Source: Not listed (case name is Maintenance Shop and Garage

Type: Potable Wall Contamination, Source: Tip Top Cleaner

Type: Potable Wall Contamination, Source: Jerry’s Cleaners

Type: Potable Wall Contamination, Source: Plaza Jewelers

Washington Township: 1

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Washington Town Center

Wood-Ridge: 1

Type: Vapor Intrusion, Source: Curtiss Wright Corp

Woodcliff Lake: 1

Type: Potable Wall Contamination, Source: Not listed (case name is Park Ridge Well 15)

The state overhauled the contaminated-site cleanup program and phased in the Licensed Site Remediation Professional program (LSRP) in 2012. The program is designed to help clear the state’s 20,000 known contaminated site cases in New Jersey. All the sites are listed under that program.

"The LSRP program is unequivocally working and working very well. We have somebody on the ground at virtually every site across the site," said Larry Hajna, a DEP spokesperson. "The sites have been evaluated for any potential off-site impacts. Everything we know about is contained and under the oversight of either an LSRP, the state, or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."

At the end of April, there were about 14,200 cases remaining and of those, licensed site remediation professionals are overseeing the cleanup of 11,000 of the sites, including many in Bergen County. Many of the remaining cases are residential underground oil tanks, cases overseen directly by the state or federal government, including Superfund sites, and cases that are closed but are awaiting permits to monitor residual contamination.

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Photo: An underground storage tank is removed. — By the U.S. Army Environmental Command, used with permission under Creative Commons license.