[CPEO-BIF] Jersey City warehouse closed as owner attempts to repair a chromium-contaminated wall

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Jersey City owner of broken, contaminated wall faces bureaucratic mess


By Terrence T. McDonald
Jersey Journal (NJ)
December 27, 2011


A Halladay Street warehouse owner is caught up in a bureaucratic mess  
as he attempts to repair a chromium-contaminated wall that was nearly  
destroyed last month in a truck accident.

Jersey City officials initially demanded that the wall be repaired by  
the end of this month.

The wall, on the southeastern side of Richard Bass' 42,000-square- 
foot warehouse, was damaged over Thanksgiving weekend when a truck  
backed into it, threatening the wall's integrity.

But wall isn't just unstable -- it's also contaminated by a  
dangerous, cancer-causing chemical thanks to the building's proximity  
to a polluted plot of land.
So while the city's building officials want a new wall constructed as  
soon as possible, the state Department of Environmental Protection  
has put the brakes on the project.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2011/12/ 
jersey_city_owner_of_broken_co.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>
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