Gloucester City NJ: $25 Million EPA Cleanup of sports fields

The opening of the Johnson Blvd ball fields at the Billy Flynn Sports Complex, Gloucester City. Speakers Mayor William James and Congressman Rob Andrews.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the successful cleanup and restoration of the once contaminated William Flynn Veterans Sports Complex in Gloucester City, New Jersey, which is part of the Welsbach/General Gas Mantle Superfund site in Camden County. EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck was joined by Congressmember Robert E. Andrews and Gloucester City Mayor William P. James at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Gloucester City to officially reopen the park and return it to the community. The use of radioactive thorium in the manufacture of gas lamps at the former Welsbach Company in Gloucester and the General Gas Mantle facility in Camden caused the contamination of numerous properties in both cities. The $25 million cleanup at the sports complex and the ongoing cleanup of the Superfund site put 330 people to work last year. Since November 2000, EPA has invested more than $200 million in the cleanup of the Welsbach/ General Gas Mantle facilities and surrounding properties.

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