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Mercury Found In Some Jersey Shore Wells, NJDEP Offers To Relocate Residents: Mayor Mercury Found In Some Jersey Shore Wells, NJDEP Offers To Relocate Residents: Mayor
Mercury Found In Some Jersey Shore Wells, Njdep Offers To Relocate Residents: Mayor Wells for some homes in Upper Township have tested positive for mercury, officials said. About a dozen wells were found to have "unacceptable levels of contamination" from mercury, Mayor John Newman said in a Facebook post on Monday, Oct. 14. State and county health officials were helping the township identify the affected homes. "It is important to understand that no correlation, blame, cause, or any other finger can be pointed to anyone for causing this contamination at this time," Mayor Newman wrote. "At this time, our goal is to keep testing until the entire contaminatio…

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