[CPEO-BIF] Woodbridge, New Jersey waterfront

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'Win-win' on Woodbridge waterfront
Remediation starts at Keasbey Revelopment Site

Written by Bob Makin
My Central Jersey
July 14, 2011

WOODBRIDGE - The $50 million redevelopment of the waterfront in the  
Keasbey section of the township is a "win-win" for the local economy  
and environment, agreed a variety of players in the remediation of  
the former Nuodex property.

The 185-acre toxic chemical site, the largest segment of the  
township’s Brownfield Development Area, has been closed nearly 30  
years. But over the next four, two-thirds of it will be restored as  
wetlands, complete with a nature center, boardwalk trails and public  
access to the Raritan River from the township for the first time in  
more than 100 years, Mayor John E. McCormac said.

A former state treasurer, the mayor was even more filled with glee  
about the property tax revenue and job boost the township will  
receive when a natural gas power plant sets up shot on the remaining  
acreage.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20110714/NJNEWS/307140025/-Win- 
win-on-Woodbridge-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>
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