Research Guides: Environmental Inequality in Postwar America: Superfund Site: Diamond Alkali Co.

Superfund Site: Diamond Alkali Company

How Did the Passaic River, a Superfund site near Newark, New Jersey, Become an Agent Orange Dioxin TCDD Hotspot?: Kenneth R. Olson and Mike Tharp. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 75(2), March 2020, pp. 33A-37A.; "The Passaic River parallels the Hudson River and was an industrial river, which included plants that manufactured Agent Orange that was used in the Vietnam War in the 1960s. Stretches of river along Newark are postindustrial, abandoned landscapes, and the sediment at the mouth of the Passaic River near Newark Bay remains contaminated with dioxin TCDD, PCBs, and Hg. The USEPA designated a 27 km (16 mi) stretch of the Passaic River as a Superfund site." Rutgers-restricted Access

Superfund Site: Diamond Alkali Co., Newark, NJ: In the 1950s and 1960s, the Diamond Alkali Company manufactured agricultural chemicals, including the herbicides used in the defoliant known as “Agent Orange” on Lister Avenue in Newark. A by-product of these manufacturing processes was 2,3,7,8-TCDD (dioxin), an extremely toxic chemical.

1977 Letter from the Medical Director of the Diamond Shamrock Corporation to the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health: Information on Diamond Shamrock's experience with 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin.

Assessment of Potential Sources of Release of Dioxin to the Environment From Reported Manufacturing Operations and Activities at the Diamond Shamrock Facility, 80 Lister Avenue, Newark, New Jersey: Prepared for Defense Steering Committee (Diamond Shamrock v. Aetna, et al), May 29, 1987.

“Reconstruction of Historical 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin Discharges from a Former Pesticide Manufacturing Plant to the Lower Passaic River": Robert Parette, David J. Velinsky, and Wendy N. Pearson. Chemosphere (Oxford) 212, December 2018, pp. 1125-1132. Rutgers-restricted Access

Health Consultation: Diamond Alkali Company: Prepared by the New Jersey Department of Health, Environmental Health Service, August 21, 1996.