April 30,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Upper Saddle River NJ, Battle for Pleasant Brook continues and GreenUSR.org enters a second phase ,the Cleanup. This ”unimportant” to our local leaders environment issue has become a matter of national urgency.
Derek Michalski , “It‘s up to us to make our officials accountable for their actions and if anybody wants to digest brown water from Toll Brother‘s April 20, 2018 massive mud dump please let me know. I should have some saved in jars with appropriate labels. No one should underestimate danger of accidental digestion of arsenic and Lead. Better be save than 40 years later sorry. Last March EPA provided this warning: “Lead is a neurotoxin and increasing amounts build up in the body. Even at low levels, lead in children can lower I.Q.s, cause learning disabilities, damage hearing, reduce attention spans, and cause hyperactivity and other behavior problems. Arsenic is toxic, can damage people’s health, and can cause cancer. This cleanup reduces the potential for harm to people’s health from coming into contact with, or accidentally ingesting, soil or creek sediment contaminated with lead and arsenic”
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-secures-agreement-14-million-cleanup-lead-and-arsenic-route-561-dump-site-gibbsboro
Unprecedented Silt Pollution Runoff Near Apple Ridge Construction Site
https://theridgewoodblog.net/unprecedented-silt-dust-mud-pollution-by-apple-ridge-construction-site_usrgreen/
