Kin-Buc Landfill
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The Kin-Buc Landfill is a 220-acre (0.89 km2) Superfund site located in Edison, New Jersey where 70 million US gallons (260,000 m3) of liquid toxic waste and 1 million tons of solid waste were dumped. It was active from the late 1940s to 1976. It was ordered closed in 1977.[1] Cleanup operations have been underway to address environmental issues with contamination from 1980s through to 2000s.[2][3] This site was one of the largest superfund sites in New Jersey having taken in around 90 million US gallons (340,000 m3).[4] The site is heavily contaminated with PCBs, which leaked into Edmonds Creek, a tributary of the Raritan River.[2]