Trenton Historic Potteries Site Officially Added to Federal EPA National Priorities List

Trenton Historic Potteries site officially added to federal EPA National Priorities List

TRENTON — One important hurdle has been cleared in the process of remediating the city’s lead problems, at least for one neighborhood. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has officially put the Historic Potteries site in East Trenton on the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL), which gives Trenton the ability to tap in to federal programs and funding “to clean up legacy lead contamination affecting homes, parks, and public spaces across…

Historic site in N.J. added to Superfund priorities list, feds say

The site has caused lead contamination in the soil across East Trenton, the EPA said.