Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Montville families stays off the grass due to high pesticide levels

Montville families stays off the grass due to high pesticide levels
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/montville_families_staying_off.html

"Bonnieview Lane in Montville is home to many children, although few are ever seen outside, even on the sunniest summer day.  The swing sets are generally empty, and the plush green lawns are void of baseballs, footballs and hockey nets. There's no laughter rising from the backyards, no shouts and shrieks of children at play.
Jennifer Brown/The Star-LedgerA yard on Bonnieview Lane in Montville, where many areas are too dangerous to play or garden on due to pesticides. A federal court battle over who should pick up the tab for a clean-up continues to drag on and may go to court next month.  It's been that way for six years.  "You just don't see them because nobody goes out on their lawns," said Sharon Perrone, the mother of three young girls who say they can count the times they have walked in their yard.  The neighborhood is poisoned -- at least that's the fear of the more than a dozen families who live in the center-hall, brick colonial homes built a decade ago on both sides of the hillside lane."

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