Hazard NJ
Hazard NJ
NJ Spotlight News
Episode 5: Orange Fog and Creeping Saltwater
22 minutes Posted Oct 5, 2022 at 7:23 pm.
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The National Lead company spent years in the 1970s recycling car batteries at a factory in rural South Jersey, haphazardly draining battery acid onto the ground. The pollution left dangerous heavy metals in the site's soil and groundwater --- a mess that is now on the verge of being cleaned up. But in an area along Delaware Bay, sea level rise is slowly pushing a new potential problem into the ground.