Former Diamond Alkali Agent Orange Manufacturing Site (Newark, New Jersey)
USA /
New Jersey /
Harrison /
Newark, New Jersey /
Lister Ave., 80-102
World
/ USA
/ New Jersey
/ Harrison
World / United States / New Jersey
Diamond Alkali, Diamond Shamrock Superfund Site, Occidental Chemical Corp. Of Dallas
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In 1983, dangerous levels of dioxin were discovered at an abandoned chemical factory in Ironbond. Diamond Alkali Company was largely responsible for this pollution through their heavy production of Agent Orange between 1951 and 1969. The off-site cleanup was completed by 1986. In 1989 the site received a permanent impermeable cap. As recently as 1990, testing of fin and shell fish in Newark and Raritan bays and the Atlantic Ocean near Sandy Hook showed the highest levels of dioxin contamination that had ever been detected in potential human foods.
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In 1983, dangerous levels of dioxin were discovered at an abandoned chemical factory in Ironbond. Diamond Alkali Company was largely responsible for this pollution through their heavy production of Agent Orange between 1951 and 1969. The off-site cleanup was completed by 1986. In 1989 the site received a permanent impermeable cap. As recently as 1990, testing of fin and shell fish in Newark and Raritan bays and the Atlantic Ocean near Sandy Hook showed the highest levels of dioxin contamination that had ever been detected in potential human foods.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 40°44'24"N 74°8'8"W
- 123-125 Pennsylvania Avenue 2.1 km
- Part of the Abandoned Erie Lacawana Newark Branch 2.3 km
- Interstate 280 Exit 16 2.6 km
- Gunnel Oval 2.9 km
- 429 Delancy Street 3 km
- Erie Lackawanas Newark Branch Interlocking Crossings ( Abandoned) 3.5 km
- Baxter Park south 3.7 km
- Oriental Village 3.7 km
- Baxter North 3.8 km
- Eminent domain struggle site 4.5 km
- The Ironbound section of Newark, New Jersey 2.6 km
- CRRNJ Newark Branch (Partially Abandoned) 2.7 km
- Downtown Newark, NJ 3 km
- New Jersey Institute of Technology - NJIT 3.6 km
- University Heights, Newark, NJ 4 km
- NJDOC Northern State Prison 4.4 km
- Hudson County, New Jersey 5.3 km
- Newark Bay 7 km
- Essex County, New Jersey 11 km
- Union County, New Jersey 17 km