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Maybe unrelated, but something that scared me a long time ago was that essentially of New Jersey is inside of or very close to a Superfund site. Effectively the
by ohyoutravel 5y ago
Maybe unrelated, but something that scared me a long time ago was that essentially of New Jersey is inside of or very close to a Superfund site. Effectively the worst of the worst environmental cleanup sites.
https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-y...
- gruez 5y agoThe page you provided doesn't have a map, but looking at the one from wikipedia[1] makes me think it's just a heatmap of population and/or industrial activity. New jersey just looks exceptionally worse because it's a small state that is heavily urbanized. [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Superfund_sites.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Superfun...
- ohyoutravel 5y agoThanks for the map! Yes I somewhat agree, though superfund sites are designated as such because they’re particularly toxic and in need to remediation. NJ has a long history of industrial activity, though why it may be particularly toxic I do not know.