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Posted: Thursday, 02 July 2009 7:01AM
Medical Waste Washes Up on New Jersey Beaches
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BARNEGAT LIGHT, NJ (AP) -- State officials are trying to trace the source of medical waste that washed ashore along an 8-mile stretch of southern New Jersey beaches.
The debris was found from Barnegat Light to Surf City on Sunday. However, the Long Beach Island Health Department did not release information about the incident until Wednesday because director Tim Hilferty says it was cleaned up by Monday morning.
Hilferty says the debris included syringes, wood, plastic, bottle caps, cell phone cases, ribbons and balloons.
But Cheltenham, Pa., resident Anne Leyden says she saw syringes, catheters, medical tubing, test tubes, urine specimen bottles, condoms and hazardous waste bags. Leyden says there was so much medical waste, you couldn't avoid stepping in it.
The Environmental Protection Department says the wash-up did not appear to be major.
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