2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: bobh@np.craigslist.org
Date: 24 Oct 2007 13:51:44 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Institutional control failure in Asbury Park
 
The following story about a failed institutional control (IC) raises a number of
questions. What set of policies can affect discretionary choices to make ICs more
or less robust? What constitutes a breach of an IC and what are appropriate
response actions? What is the nature of the bargaining relationships among
political actors at different levels of the implementation process?

Bob Hersh


Jackson won't be punished for park on landfill

Contractor struck garbage during excavation
Asbury Park Press
10/23/07
BY FRAIDY REISS

JACKSON (NJ)? The township will not be hit with a violation notice following the
unearthing earlier this month of a former landfill that sits under a park, a state
Department of Environmental Protection spokesman said. The incident in John F.
Johnson Memorial Park occurred Oct. 12, when a paving company began work on a
$455,000 contract to build two basketball courts in the park.

"Through an oversight, they hit garbage, and they took corrective action to cover
it back up," DEP spokesman Larry Hajna said Monday.

He acknowledged that state law requires written approval from the DEP before work
may be done on a landfill site, and that Jackson did not seek such approval before
starting the project. When asked why that was not deemed a violation, he said it
was the inspector's decision, based on the township's promise to apply for the
necessary approvals.

For the entire article, see:
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071023/NEWS02/710230370/1070

Bob Hersh
CPEO



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