Superfund Site:

VENTRON/VELSICOL
WOOD RIDGE BOROUGH, NJ

Superfund Site Profile

Site Contacts

Community Involvement Coordinator
Shereen Kandil
(212) 637-4333

Remedial Project Manager
Doug Tomchuk
(212) 637-3956

Site Location

Street Address:
ETHYL BOULEVARD
WOOD RIDGE BOROUGH, NJ 07075

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Announcements and Key Topics

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is continuing to oversee the development of the Remedial Design Report, which is the engineering plan that details how the cleanup for the Berry’s Creek Study Area (BCSA) will be performed. The BCSA Group, a group of approximately 120 companies that are potentially responsible for the investigation and cleanup of the site, is conducting ...
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Background

The Ventron/Velsicol site is located in the boroughs of Wood-Ridge and Carlstadt, New Jersey. A mercury processing plant operated at the site from 1929 until 1974. Process waste, containing mercury ...
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