the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Upper Saddle River NJ, Governor Phil Murphy announced that Catherine R. McCabe, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, will be retiring as of January 15, 2021.
Commissioner McCabe was an early appointment to Governor Murphy’s cabinet, selected to lead the high-impact agency after a long career as an environmental lawyer and manager with the federal government, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice. McCabe last served as Deputy Regional Administrator of EPA’s Region 2 office in New York City from 2014 to 2018. In 2017, she served as the Acting Administrator of the EPA and as Acting Regional Administrator of EPA Region 2.
NJDEP has come under fierce criticism for lack of responsiveness to local over building and caving to developers .
https://theridgewoodblog.net/apple-ridge-mess-just-will-not-go-away/
https://theridgewoodblog.net/last-plea-to-stem-apple-ridge-stormwater-pollution/
Maybe by the looks of this, the runoff could’ve been contained a bit better.