[CPEO-BIF] National Park Borough landfill, Gloucester County, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Promise seen in a closed landfill
A tiny Glouco borough is taking the lead of other N.J. areas: It's 
capping a dump and repurposing the land.

By Jan Hefler
Philadelphia Inquirer
July 19, 2009

The vacant waterfront parcel in South Jersey is within walking distance 
of a historic battlefield and park on the Delaware River.

But its potential for development depends upon a planner's imagination: 
The 70-acre Gloucester County site is a shuttered landfill.

The land contains twisted pieces of Society Hill homes demolished 
between 1970 and 1978 for the revitalization of South Philadelphia. 
National Park Borough residents watched the landfill rise beyond their 
backyards as workers threw concrete chunks from a razed baseball stadium 
into the mix.

Now, the borough, where the Revolutionary War Battle of Red Bank was 
fought, plans to cap the landfill and build a shopping center. Five 
developers, enticed by government grants, have bid on how they would 
perform this magic for the tiny, cash-strapped community of 3,000.

The concept of building atop a trash pile is more than two decades old, 
even though many projects have been stalled or scrapped and litter the 
nation's landscape.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/nj/20090719_Promise_seen_in_a_closed_landfill.html

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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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