2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 16 Jun 2007 02:53:41 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] General Dynamics, Woodbridge, New Jersey
 
[One of the impacts of keying cleanup levels to future use ... -LS]

Board mulls contaminated site

Woodbridge weighing redevelopment

By RICK HARRISON
New Brunswick Home News Tribune
June 15, 2007

WOODBRIDGE — Even as contamination from the former General Dynamics site in Avenel appears to have migrated to the neighboring Fifth District Park, the property's owner and the township have begun the slow process of redeveloping the property.

On Tuesday, the Township Council approved a resolution directing the Planning Board to study whether the site — located at 150 Avenel St. — should be named an area in need of redevelopment. If the township ultimately designates the area as a redevelopment zone, it could better shape the outline of what can and can't be built there.

"We want a use that's going to get the highest level of cleanup with the least possible traffic," Mayor John McCormac said. "Right now that appears to be some kind of residential development with a small retail component."

McCormac said the township will insist on a cleanup that brings the property to within state regulations for unrestricted development, a higher bar than those required to meet for industrial or commercial development.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070615/NEWS010201/706150395/1001

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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