Ridgewood paying for portion of Passaic River cleanup
Monday March 25, 2013, 10:33 AM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The Village of Ridgewood is among several dozen municipalities throughout the state that are on the hook as third party defendants to pay for past and future Passaic River cleanups, a task that federal officials and environmentalists believe will run as much as $4 billion to complete.
The Village of Ridgewood was ordered by a judge to pay for a portion of Passaic River cleanups because some private homes might have contributed to the pollution.
Ridgewood council members recently approved a resolution formally accepting the village’s responsibility.
Over a 10-month period that bridged 2011 and 2012, a Superior Court justice ruled that three companies were responsible under New Jersey’s Spill Compensation and Control Act to rid an eight-mile stretch of the lower Passaic River of the cancer-causing chemical dioxin.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/199860601_Ridgewood_paying_for_portion_of_Passaic_River_cleanup.html
Speaking of clean up – how do we stop all those annoying free newspapers from being thrown in our driveways, flower beds and lawns?
Over the years I’ve written letters to The Bergen Record/North Jersey Deals on behalf of us and our neighbors who asked me to and the papers will stop for about a month but then they’re back with a vengence. Phone calls have the same lame effect.
How can we get the message across that don’t want these papers littering our property and our town?
Any ideas?