JANUARY 29, 2016—NOAA and EPA visited the Troy Chemical Corporation and portions of Pierson's Creek on January 21, 2016.

Pierson's Creek is a tidally influenced waterbody that discharges into the Newark Bay Study Area portion of the Diamond Alkali Superfund Site. Troy Chemical Corporation, situated in an industrial area of Newark, New Jersey, is one of several potential sources of contamination to the creek and bay. Still an active chemical plant, Troy Chemical Corporation has been in operation since 1956 with a history of manufacturing mercury products and reclaiming mercury. This facility is included in EPA's 2013 listing of the Pierson's Creek Superfund Site. This site along with others, including the Diamond Alkali Superfund Site, the Standard Chlorine Superfund Site, the Diamond Head Oil Superfund Site, and the Riverside Industrial Park Superfund Site, are part of the natural resource trustees' broader Passaic River/Newark Bay natural resource damage assessment .

For more information, contact Lisa.Rosman@noaa.gov.

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