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Tour of Newark,
2003 & 2005 |
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Most people have never seen a Superfund
site – a site that has been identified as being one of the most
toxic sites in the country - or heard the story behind it. This
shows a portion of the Diamond Alkali Superfund site, where industrial
chemical company Diamond Alkali manufactured numerous toxic chemicals,
including much of the Agent Orange that was used in the Vietnam War.
In the background, the gravel mound visible is the cap on
the toxic site which sits below, buried underneath a concrete cap to
prevent further spreading of the toxins.
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"Growing up in the Ironbound neighborhood
in Newark , I experienced firsthand the impacts of environmental
injustice. Although I felt a great sense of pride for my
hardworking, diverse community I could never shake the deep
sense of resentment about the degraded conditions we lived
in – the abandoned sites, foul odors, lack of greenspace..."
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