Guest Oped: EPA is Cleaning Up Trenton’s Historic Potteries Site

Guest Oped: EPA is Cleaning Up Trenton’s Historic Potteries Site

By Michael Martucci, Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Region 2 If you grew up in Trenton, you may remember the tall brick smokestacks and kilns that dotted the skyline. The East Trenton and Top Road neighborhoods were the beating heart of the city’s pottery trade, which thrived from the 1850s to the 1920s. Those kilns once fired the ceramics that made this city famous, and their smoke symbolized working factories an…

Statement from Mayor W. Reed Gusciora on EPA's Addition of Trenton's Historic Potteries Site to the Superfund National Priorities List

Today’s announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to add the Historic Potteries site in Trenton’s North Ward to the National Priorities List marks a significant step toward a cleaner, safer, and healthier future for our city. Trenton’s legacy as a center of pottery manufacturing brought both cultural and economic vitality to our city—but it also left behind a dangerous legacy of lead contamination, particularly in the soil o…

Trenton’s Historic Potteries site added to Superfund list

The EPA has added Trenton’s Historic Potteries site to the Superfund list to address lead contamination in East Trenton neighborhoods, schools, and parks.