Representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will visit the Edgewater Community Center July 29 and Aug. 5. Both meetings will be at 7 p.m. and will cover different topics of the site’s cleanup.

The July 29 meeting will be on vapor intrusion and coal tar and the Aug. 5 meeting will be on groundwater and soil contamination.

Soil and water testing has shown contaminants on the site and near it in the Hudson River.

The borough has a community group called Quanta Community Advisory Group Edgewater. It allows residents the opportunity to be involved and informed of the cleanup process. The two upcoming meetings will include presentations on the night’s topic, followed by a question and answer portion.

The Quanta Resources site, located at 163 River Road, was a coal tar distillation plant from 1896 to 1974. After that, waste oil was recycled there. Quanta Resources then leased the site in 1980 and it was used for storing and reprocessing oil. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection shut down operations at the site in July 1981 when storage tanks with oil containing large quantities of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, were discovered. Coal tar creosote, lead, arsenic, PCBs, and other volatile organic compounds exist in soil and groundwater under the site, River Road, and properties on the other side of River Road. It was named to the Superfund National Priorities list in 2002. The national program aims to clean hazardous waste sites containing potentially harmful material.

The Edgewater Community Center is located at 1167 River Road.

For more information about the meetings or the Quanta Resources site, call Natalie Loney, community involvement coordinator with the EPA at 212-637-3639.