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Ridgewood NJ, demand that the Ridgewood Mayor, the New Jersey Attorney General, and the NJDEP do their due diligence to find the source of legacy contamination and stop this proposed harmful development!
Activists including the Sierra Club are urging residents to hold officials accountable and demand that the Ridgewood Mayor, New Jersey Attorney General, and NJDEP conduct a full investigation following the discovery of hazardous soil contamination. The 42 million pounds of ‘free soil’ obtained from various sources, including Ridgewood Water and Bergen County Community College, could ultimately cost the public millions, with no clear assessment of the health or environmental impacts. Despite public outcry, Ridgewood officials have refused to take action against those responsible.
Beginning this past spring, the NJ State Historic Preservation office has been determining whether or not an artificial turf field will be built at the historic Schedler property in Ridgewood, NJ.
Ridgewood’s proposed artificial turf development at the historic Schedler property would have serious negative environmental and public health impacts and is also completely inappropriate due to its historical significance given its Revolutionary War history.
Due to these multiple concerns, a second-phase $53,778 survey of the property was ordered and the NJDEP issued soil sampling and analysis after contamination was found from previous construction.Since then, water contamination was found at two sites, Bergen Community and Ridgewood Water. The agency is continuing to test more of the historic seven-acre property and will work with Matrix New World Engineering (Ridgewood’s LSRP) on a remediation plan. The next steps in the testing process are disclosed in this August document.
A town engineer admitted in December 2023 that he oversaw the soil project at Schedler. Ridgewood is refusing to be transparent, investigate how this happened, or disclose who is responsible despite the NJDEP holding the information. We need to hold the local elected officials in Ridgewood accountable to protect our right to clean soil, clean water, and a safe environment.
Join us in sending a message demanding that the Ridgewood Mayor, the New Jersey Attorney General, and the NJDEP do their due diligence to find the source of legacy contamination and stop this proposed harmful development!
The evaluation of the proposed artificial turf development at the Schedler property must include the soil sample and water quality results obtained by the NJDEP to determine whether or not the site is safe, and the public needs to be informed.
Ridgewood residents deserve full transparency and demand that the polluter is held accountable for their actions, which will severely impact the environmental and public health of the local community and wildlife that use this property for habitat and recreation.
Sign and post here :
https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/NewJersey?actionId=AR0474292&id=70131000001Lp1FAAS
Target of 178?
The lawyers are circling!
I hope PFAS Paulie and his merry band of dingbats are ready…
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Toxic, contamination, and the only thing there were about us, hurry up and remove it so they can have a ballfield. And yet no one from the mayor, the council village manager health department, the union. The DEP are concerned about the village employees who worked at that location for their health, how come the villages not sending them to get tested, what are they waiting for There Attorney. Ridiculous. At this moment right now, I blame we blame the top brass for doing nothing.
sell it
Didn’t Kwak vote to put turf back down at the HS?
I started to sign but it requires signing in through Google. Because I abandoned that miserable company years ago, I clicked out.
Well, Mr. manager ,🧑🏼🦲when are you going to call us? The employees that work at the location of the toxic sites, we want to go and get tested supervision knows exactly who is working at these locations. There’s a few employees from two departments one that has recently retired. They exactly know the names and phone numbers so stop the bullshit.