2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 10:57:07 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "South Jersey towns turning tainted sites into attractions"
 
South Jersey towns turning tainted sites into attractions

By DEREK HARPER
Press of Atlantic City
December 25, 2013

Egg Harbor Township cut the ribbon on its new Nature Reserve this fall, marking the rebirth of the former sandpit once described by a judge as "a scar on the landscape."

But it"s not the first time the township turned an unappealing industrial property into something people can enjoy.

The Nature Reserve is about two miles from McCullough"s Emerald Links, a township-owned golf course that sits atop an 80-year-old landfill.

"You have no idea," Mayor James "Sonny" McCullough said of the once- stinky tract. "It was right in the middle of town. People who lived around it couldn"t barbecue. There were seagulls, there were rats, the odor was horrendous. It was just a tremendous eyesore for Egg Harbor Township - not just an eyesore, but a nose-sore."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/communities/eht/south-jersey-towns- turning-tainted-sites-into-attractions/ article_8f81de2e-6dd5-11e3-83a7-001a4bcf887a.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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