Workers will use a drill rig mounted to a pickup truck to collect soil samples at the chromium-contaminated site on Garfield Avenue today, weather permitting. The work is expected to take one day only.
The samples will be taken from about four feet below the ground, and then a New Jersey-certified lab will analyze the samples [...]
In response to an Open Public Records Act request by JCI, the Department of Environmental Protection has posted the eight letters it received during the one-month public comment period (which ended on April 15) on the proposed settlement between the state, the city and PPG Industries to clean up chromium contamination in Ward F.
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“We need assurances, not just your word of mouth,” Randolph Avenue resident Joyce Willis said on Monday night, capturing the overarching sentiment in the City Council chambers as 33 people spoke during a public hearing on the city’s proposed settlement with PPG Industries to clean up a chromium-contaminated site on Garfield Avenue.
- Jersey City will get $2.32 million in federal stimulus funds earmarked for energy efficiency projects.
- GRACO is holding a 3 pm rally at 900 Garfield Ave. today to call for a more comprehensive cleanup of the chromium-contaminated site.
- In an omnibus column, the Insider trots out a legitimate criticism of Mayor Healy’s refusal to [...]
As the city’s settlement with PPG Industries enters a one-month public comment period, many community members and environmental advocates say it isn’t tough enough, and some are continuing their own fights against what they call a rogue polluter.
- As we reported yesterday, some critics of Mayor Healy are upset about his campaign’s rental of a Jersey City Incinerator Authority truck to use in Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. “Because he knows people in high places, he gets away with it,” mayoral candidate Lou Manzo tells the Journal. In an editorial, the paper [...]
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