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Environmentalists Seeing Red After Dye Dumped Into Waterway Taints South Jersey Creek Environmentalists Seeing Red After Dye Dumped Into Waterway Taints South Jersey Creek
Environmentalists Seeing Red After Dye Dumped Into Waterway Taints South Jersey Creek Environmental activists were seeing red after a South Jersey company improperly disposed of red dye, tainting a local creek (scroll for photos). TopTop Packaging was responsible for dumping the dye into the waste water system that turned the Pennsauken Creek bright red Tuesday, Aug. 2, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection said. "The discoloration was caused by a discharge of food-grade dye from the TopPop Packaging Co. in Evesham that went to the Evesham MUA Woodstream Wastewater Treatment Plant, which discharges to the creek system," NJDEP spokesman Larry Hajna said. The…

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