[CPEO-BIF] Cranbury Brickyard, Cranbury, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CRANBURY: Cleanup raises concerns

By Maria Prato
Cranbury Brickyard (NJ)
May 27, 2010

CRANBURY - Planning Board members are concerned about the amount of 
truck traffic and the quality of soil a developer is proposing to bring 
on the property as fill during construction of a planned warehouse 
complex on Brickyard Road.

Viridian Partners, of Colorado, which is operating as Cranbury Brickyard 
LLC, is seeking site plan approval for a 2.8-million-square-foot 
warehouse project on the long-abandoned site of a munitions factory. The 
factory, Unexcelled, exploded in 1954, killing two workers and 
scattering debris, some of which remains potentially live, across the 
395-acre parcel.

Viridian, which specializes in cleaning and redeveloping contaminated 
sites, bought the property several years ago and is proposing 
construction of three warehouses and using the buildings and parking 
lots to cap the site. Access to the remainder of the site would be banned.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.centraljersey.com/articles/2010/05/27/cranbury_press/news/doc4bfee4401ebc5127947787.txt

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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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