Middlesex Sampling Plant

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Middlesex Sampling Plant
Superfund site
Middlesex Sampling Plant, 1968
Geography
Town	Borough of Middlesex
County	Middlesex
State	New Jersey
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Information
CERCLIS ID	NJ0890090012
Contaminants	Radioactive waste including uranium, thorium, and beryllium
Responsible parties	US Department of Energy United States military
Progress
Proposed	September 29, 1998 (1998-09-29)
Listed	January 19, 1999 (1999-01-19)
List of Superfund sites

The Middlesex Sampling Plant on Mountain Avenue in Middlesex, New Jersey, is a 9.6 acres (38,800 m²) site which was initially used to stockpile pitchblende uranium ore. From 1943 to 1955, under the direction of the Manhattan Project and its successor agency, the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), it was used to crush, dry, screen, weigh, assay, store, package, and ship uranium ore, along with thorium and beryllium ores, for the development of the atomic bomb.