Kin-Buc Landfill

The Kin-Buc Landfill is a 220-acre (0.89 km2) Superfund site located in Edison, New Jersey where 70 million US gallons (260,000 m3) of liquid toxic waste and 1 million tons of solid waste were dumped.

[1] Cleanup operations have been underway to address environmental issues with contamination from 1980s through to 2000s.

[4] The site is heavily contaminated with PCBs, which leaked into Edmonds Creek, a tributary of the Raritan River.

[2] By 1979 legal action had been launched and in 1980 as part of the settlement between Kin-Buc Ltd. and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) began clean-up operations with large amounts of waste shipped off site and incinerated between 1984 and 1994.

[2] In 2005 a legal agreement was reached in which US$2.6 million to pay for some of the ongoing cleanup as well as other actions to help clean up the pollution at the site.