The Nation - News from Aug. 9, 1989

Firefighters doused a rubbish fire at Newark, N.J., that had buckled a section of a major highway, while a court ordered the dump where the waste was found to remove garbage piled beneath two busy roadways. A two-judge panel of the Appellate Division of Superior Court ordered Hub Recycling & Scrap Metals Co. to refuse any more construction waste until a lower court can decide whether the facility poses a threat to the community. The judges also told Hub Recycling to clean out materials that lie beneath the highways--Interstate 78 and U.S. 22--and not place new waste under the roads. Flames and heat from a pile of debris Monday buckled an elevated portion of Interstate 78, a critical east-west link with New York.