Politics & Government

EPA Finds No Contamination at Westmoreland School

Fair Lawn's Westmoreland well field was named a Superfund site in 1983.

A new round of testing for contaminants left at a Fair Lawn Superfund site found that no chemicals had leaked onto the Westmoreland Elementary School property, officials said.

The Environmental Protection Agency recently completed vapor intrusion sampling at the school and found there were no site-related contaminants of concern below the school, according to Elias Rodriguez, an EPA public information officer.

"We do not anticipate any additional sampling at the school," Rodriguez told Patch via email.

Fair Lawn schools Superintendent Bruce Watson said they had not expected any problems, but the findings were still "good news."

The Westmoreland well field was added to the EPA's list of Superfund sites in 1983 because of pollution believed to have come a business in the nearby industrial park, Thermo-Fisher Scientific, Sandvik or Kodak.

The EPA previously took samples around the area in 2009 and '10, and found nothing of concern then. They expanded the testing area this year to include the school after Fair Lawn residents requested further testing during a meeting with EPA officials last year.


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