One of New Jersey’s oldest Superfund sites is a big step closer to being deemed cleaned up. The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing an end to work to clean polluted groundwater at the Universal Oil Products site in East Rutherford, where toxic chemicals contaminated the soil and sediment dating back to 1930.
But as the EPA turns its focus to the remaining mess in nearby Meadowlands waterways, environmentalists say there’s still a threat of contamination underground.
