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Upper Saddle River NJ, Derek Michalski reports again on the runoff from the Toll Brother site at Apple Ridge, “Dark and Stormy in USR today on this gloomy Friday December 28, 2018. We are experiencing heavy rain and another storm water violation on the part of Toll Brothers in Upper Saddle River. This time laden with arsenic and lead mud (sorry “colloidal clay” as NJDEP wants us to call this 12th month long pollution) is allowed to being discharged directly into our public drains. And not even one Toll Brothers employee or USR town zoning officer on the site paying attention to lack of silt barriers and even the cheepest hay barriers. Truly pathetic how this site is being overseen.
Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi documented it already with her contact at the governor’s office but I am afraid our Governor Phil Murphy is not much concerned with this part of New Jersey. Perhaps maybe because we’re on the boarder with already polluted waters in Rockland County, NY. Who knows but something is very wrong when construction company is “allowed” to divert polluted mud into our rivers and down to Atlantic Ocean through system of public drains. Several similar storm water violations were also documented in the past by our Assemblywoman but the outcome of investigation (if any) is unknown. Last report one was published on these pages on August 11, 2018.
Assemblywomen Holly Schepisi said , “I will reach out again on Monday to DEP. So far every time I have reached out to both the Governor’s office and DEP I have been assured everything is “compliant” after their independent tests. I will again ask them to come up and evaluate the situation.”
Someone is being paid off. This smells very dirty, some political officials definitely involved. Wake up people. Get a hold of the mayor and council if they don’t do anything call the FBI.
Are you telling me the EPA is not doing anything about this. OK then cool every news network around and put this on national TV. Then you’ll see something get done