[CPEO-BIF] Keasbey waterfront, Woodbridge, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Industry, environmentalists share Woodbridge's vision for polluted 
waterfront

By SERGIO BICHAO
MyCentralJersey.com
March 10, 2010


WOODBRIDGE - It was an unlikely group holding a press conference 
Wednesday morning announcing the latest step in the proposed 
redevelopment of hundreds of acres of contaminated land in the Keasbey 
section of the township.

Township leaders, state officials, business owners and environmentalists 
... all agree that the clean-up of the 655 acres of polluted land must 
balance job and tax base growth on the one hand and providing public 
open space and preserving natural habitats on the other.

The site, between Industrial Avenue and the Raritan River, was 
designated a Brownfield Development Area, or BDA, last year. The 
properties ... including former industrial sites, a landfill and 31 
acres owned by the township ... are eligible for up to $5 million in 
grants every year covering all the investigation costs and 75 percent of 
cleanup costs, although private companies may have to shoulder more of 
their remediation costs.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20100310/NEWS/100310067/-1/newsfront/Industry-environmentalists-share-Woodbridge-s-vision-for-polluted-waterfront

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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