No injuries were reported as a result of the derailment near Hillside Avenue
NUTLEY - A load of contaminated soil has been removed from a local property after being dumped there when a freight train derailed and flipped Saturday night.
Dave Pidgeon, a spokesman for railroad company Norfolk Southern, said the four cubic yards of soil was removed by Sunday afternoon, and service on the rail line had been restored.
The company is still in the process of hiring a contractor to test asphalt on the lot off of Hillside Avenue to ensure there were no lingering health risks from the soil contaminated with PCBs and stabilized lead, according to Pidgeon.
"As far as we can determine there is no contamination of any water or air," he said.
Norfolk Southern is still investigating the cause of the derailment around 2 a.m., and will issue a report to the Freight Rail Association sometime next month.
The train was traveling from the former Hoffman-La Roche facility at Kingsland Street and Bloomfield Avenue when it ran off track, leaving one of its cars overturned and another leaning toward one side.
No injuries were reported.
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