[CPEO-BIF] Passaic Ave. Redevelopment Zone, Kearny, NJ

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

PASSAIC AVE. CLEANUP
Zone eligible for state $ to decontaminate

By ROSE DUGER
JERSEY JOURNAL
October 19, 2009

KEARNY - The state Department of Environmental Protection has designated 
the town's Passaic Avenue Redevelopment Zone as a Brownfield 
Redevelopment Area, paving the way for up to $5 million a year of state 
money to test and clean up contaminated properties.

The 77-acre zone, a stretch of retail and industrial properties along 
the Passaic River, runs from Bergen Avenue south to the East Newark 
border. The area includes several tracts suspected of severe contamination.

The designation means the state will pay all costs for environmental 
testing and up to 75 percent of remediation costs, according to Mayor Al 
Santos.

Santos called the designation "exciting news," since Kearny was one of 
only six municipalities in the state included in the DEP's latest round 
of designations.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/kearny/index.ssf?/base/news-0/125593351198711.xml&coll=3

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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>
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