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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).

Pennsauken Creek

Pennsauken Creek

Photo Credit: Shannon Wallin

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 stretch of water affected was in the south branch near the Woodstream Waste Water Treatment Plant in Evesham.

The agency issued the company a notice of violation for discharging a substance that caused an operational upset to the wastewater treatment plant, Hajna said.

No immediate ecological impacts have been observed, Hajna said.

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