Introduction

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) was created in response to the outburst of contaminated sites in the United States.  With a growing environmental conscious, the act was enacted by congress to cleanup inactive and abandoned hazardous sites.  The Brick Township Landfill located in Brick, New Jersey is a Superfund Site and was added to the National Priorities List in December 1982.  Over the past 30 years many decisions have been made in favor of the site in order to redeem it back to a useable condition. However, the process is taking much longer than expected with the remediation process still occurring.