NJDEP Announces Adoption of New Ground Water Remediation Standards
January 18, 2018
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) replaced the interim specific Ground Water Quality Standards with amendments to the Ground Water Quality Standards, which were published in the New Jersey Register this week. The new amendment provides specific ground water quality standards for 23 constituents and more stringent standards for three of them. NJDEP also amended Appendix A of the Discharge of Petroleum and Other Hazardous Substances rule to add perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA) as a hazardous substance. This amendment comes less than one month after the Appellate Division struck down NJDEP’s interim standards for PFNA.