[CPEO-BIF] Brick City (Newark, New Jersey) meets its river

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brick City meets its river

by The Trust for Public Land
February 18, 2014

Though they live within a stone’s throw of the mighty Passaic, many  
Newark residents have never seen the river up close. How could they?  
Contaminated by an industrial history - Agent Orange was manufactured  
here during the Vietnam war - the Passaic was declared one of the  
most severely polluted rivers in the nation and listed as a Superfund  
site. It festered, neglected and inaccessible, for decades.

But locals never gave up hope of reclaiming their river - for  
recreation and as a symbol of the Brick City’s revival. This past  
summer, they celebrated a major step toward that goal with the  
opening of the first phase of Newark Riverfront Park.

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For the entire blog and a link to a two-minute video, see
http://www.tpl.org/blog/brick-city-meets-its-river

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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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