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Holiday In Wales With notebooks in hand, sturdy footwear and strict instructions not to ask questions, a Passaic County jury toured the old DuPont plant yesterday in Pompton Lakes, where 1,600 current and former residents are suing the chemical giant for allegedly polluting the town's water supply.

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Cottage Holiday In Wales Among the 21 areas viewed by the jurors in and around the woodsy 600-acre site were lagoons where DuPont employees once dumped chemical-laced wastewater that plaintiffs claim leached into groundwater feeding a town well. The jury also saw the mountainside entrance to a "cladding" tunnel where metals were processed and where one expert claimed chlorinated solvents seeped into the groundwater.

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Caravan Holiday In Wales Many of Pompton Lakes' 10,000 residents worked for DuPont, making blasting caps, disposing of faulty munitions or cleaning heavy machinery with industrial-grade solvents that are now known to be highly toxic. The company operated the factory on the north side of the town from the early 20th century until moving its operations to Mexico in 1994.

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Accommodation Holiday Wales Yesterday's tour, which came on the same day the plaintiffs rested their case, was considered an "extension of the courtroom." The jury was accompanied by Superior Court Judge Frank Donato and attorneys for both sides. Jurors were permitted to walk about the areas in question, but not to ask questions.

Holiday Last Minute Wales As the day grew warm, the jurors hiked up a short, rocky hill to view two "shooting" ponds. In earlier testimony, DuPont site director Ralph Sloat said a source of lead, mercury and volatile organic solvents was the estimated 1 million defective blasting caps that were exploded in the two ponds each year.

Catering Holiday Self Wales "What is this wall?" one inquisitive juror asked, pointing to a manmade stone wall around one of the ponds. The judge, in an effort to limit the tour to viewing only, told the juror to put his questions in writing and save them for later in the trial.

Holiday Wales Walking The jurors also saw four former wastewater lagoons on the southern edge of the property, where Sloat testified that employees once poured chemical-tainted wastewater. The lagoons, he had said, were not lined and were leaking directly into the groundwater.

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Holiday Riding Wales Yesterday, the jurors had an opportunity to see the pump-and-treat facility for themselves.

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Holiday Park South Wales The tour ended with a visit to the pump house for a municipal well that the plaintiffs claim was contaminated by DuPont, and several homes or former homes of plaintiffs. Driving past rows of modest colonial houses and duplexes in "DuPont Village," where plant workers once lived, the jury saw a couple of houses located within two blocks of the plant site.

Cottage Holiday Wales Plaintiff Colleen Dunkerly used to live in one of the homes. Dunkerly, who suffers from neurological and respiratory disorders, swam as a child in the Acid Brook and claims pollution from the site caused her ailments.

Holiday In Wales Before deciding to allow the jury to visit the site, the judge dismissed concerns from the plaintiffs' attorneys that the jury would become biased after seeing construction and a huge sign for a luxury townhouse development under way near the entrance to the DuPont site.

Holiday Wales "It might be an inference, good or bad, that this place is okay for people to live," said Michael Lombardi, an attorney for the residents.

Cottage Holiday In Wales Donato said all the sign shows is "something obvious to everyone. ... Life is moving on in Pompton Lakes."

Caravan Holiday In Wales The defense is scheduled to begin presenting its case to the jury when the trial resumes tomorrow.

Camping Holiday Wales By Ana M. Alaya
Star-Ledger - 5/8/2002

Topic: Toxics

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