Work underway on South Jersey building contaminated with mercury.
After more than three years of legal wrangling, demolition has begun on what used to be Kiddie Kollege in Franklinville, Gloucester County; a day care center that had been housed in a former thermometer factory.
Some five dozen kids were exposed to mercury levels more than two dozen times those deemed acceptable in 2006. Assemblyman Paul Moriarty isn’t sure how long it’ll take to tear the building down, get rid of tainted soil and clean the site up.
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