Middlesex Sampling Plant FUSRAP Site Map

Middlesex Sampling Plant (FUSRAP Site)

The Middlesex Sampling Plant is located in the Borough of Middlesex in New Jersey, approximately 56 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Trenton and 42 kilometers (26 miles) southwest of Newark. The plant was established by the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), an early predecessor to the US Department of Energy (DOE), to sample, store and ship uranium and thorium ores. When MED operations ended in 1955, the Atomic Energy Agency (AEC), used this site to store and sample thorium. Primary contaminants at the site included uranium, radium, thorium, lead and organics. In the 1960s, all operations were terminated and all remaining thorium sampling activities were transferred. When AEC activities ended on the site, the area was decontaminated. EM completed this site as part of the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). The FUSRAP Program was transferred to the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in 1997, in accordance with the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act for FY 1998.