State DEP fines Ridgewood $10,000 in fines for violations in two departments
Friday April 26, 2013, 1:34 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
Ridgewood is on the hook for more than $10,000 in fines payable to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).
The Village Council this month agreed to pay the state agency for violations committed by two separate departments in 2011. A pair of resolutions was passed April 10 to accept the penalties, which were part of a settlement agreement, assessed to Ridgewood Water and the Fleet Services division of the Department of Public Works.
The village’s water company, which provides service to customers in Ridgewood, Glen Rock, Midland Park and Wyckoff, was cited for its alleged failure to monitor and report nitrate concentrations at one specific location. The sum amounted to $3,500.
The DEP, through National Primary Drinking Water Regulations, requires community water system operators to comprehensively test and report nitrate concentrations in the water to their customers each year. DEP records and lab reports noted Ridgewood Water’s lack of compliance with those standards.
Even the DEP looks to be important with small bits of income squeezed from local town’s budjets. That’s how they stay in business.
Be careful how you criticize those actions.
yes so true, the fed’s are going after county’s and tow’s for money. any place they can make money. and the problem is they think ridgewood has all the money. the d e p at time’s is joke. one day it;s this the next week it’s that.
This is old news why is it getting on here now?
because top manager’s try to hide a lot of stuff.
T.his was on the other blog and nj.com a month ago mangers could not hide it was discussed at a council meeting also
#3 – . . fines paid to the federal government do not go back to the agency issuing them, they get paid into the General Fund and then Congress gets to decide how to spend the money. There’s no direct benefit to the enforcing agency. Just people doing their jobs. Much of federal enforcement is also coming through unfunded mandates.
This isn’t the first time there’s been a leak. Some years ago the gas tank leaked so badly the village bought a house and dan johnsons building filled up with gas so bad they had to install a fume alarm in the elevator shaft. The real scream was the bosses were blaming the gasoline shorages on the emloyees ( stealing ) They had the cops doing surveillance on the gas pumps for months before they realized what was going on.
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. who would steel that shit gas.