What is Fill Material?
Ridgewood NJ, in general, “fill” refers to the material placed on land to fill low areas, modify contours, stabilize existing grades, or raise the grade of a location. Typically, fill includes soils, sands, and clays. However, it can also contain non-water-soluble, non-decomposable, inert solids such as rock, gravel, brick, block, concrete, glass, and ceramic products, provided they do not qualify as solid waste according to the Solid Waste Rules at N.J.A.C. 7:26-1.6(a)6. For our purposes, the terms “soil” and “fill” are interchangeable.
What Qualifies as Solid Waste?
Fill material containing debris such as wood, metals, plastics, wire, wallboard, roofing materials, insulation, carpets, padding, or trash is classified as solid waste. This type of fill cannot be used and must be disposed of at an approved solid waste disposal facility.
Handling Contaminated Fill
Fill that doesn’t contain debris but has hazardous contaminant levels exceeding New Jersey’s Residential or Non-Residential Direct Contact Soil Remediation Standards (NJRDCSRS or NJNRDCSRS) is also considered solid waste. However, under certain conditions, it can be used as “restricted use” fill instead of being disposed of. With proper NJDEP approvals, restricted use fill can serve as alternative daily cover at operating landfills, aid in closing terminated landfills, or be used at certain remediation sites.
Using Restricted Use Fill
To use restricted use material at an operating landfill for daily or intermediate cover, the material generator must contact the landfill operator for acceptance and guidelines. A list of currently operating landfills in New Jersey is available here.
Terminated landfills may accept restricted use fill only according to an NJDEP-approved closure and post-closure plan. For details about terminated landfills that may accept restricted use fill, contact NJDEP’s Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste, Bureau of Solid Waste Permitting at (609) 292-9880.
For sites under remediation according to the Site Remediation Reform Act, managed by a licensed site remediation professional (LSRP) or under NJDEP oversight, restricted use fill must follow Site Remediation rules and the latest Fill Material Guidance for SRP Sites. Further details on regulatory requirements can be found in the Technical Requirements for Site Remediation and the Fill Material Guidance for SRP Sites.
Beneficial Use of Restricted Use Fill
Restricted use fill can also be employed beneficially with NJDEP review and prior written authorization. This involves submitting an application by the fill generator (property owner, developer, general contractor) and obtaining a Certificate of Authority to Operate a Beneficial Use Determination (CAO/BUD) project from NJDEP before transporting the fill from the site.
The CAO/BUD Application Form and Instructions can be found here. To ensure all necessary information is included, refer to the CAO/BUD Application Review Checklist. For further assistance with the approval process, contact the NJDEP’s Beneficial Use Section at (609) 984-6985.
Using Approved Dredge Materials
Approved dredge materials can be used as fill if they comply with the Coastal Zone Management Rules, specifically N.J.A.C. 7:7-15.12 on dredged material placement.
Regulatory Compliance
NJDEP regulates restricted use fill and activities in its jurisdiction (wetlands, tidal areas, etc.). Placement of acceptable fill in other areas must adhere to local municipal and county regulations, including any local soil importation ordinances. To avoid potential liability and ensure regulatory compliance, generators, brokers, and transporters of fill, along with property owners receiving fill, should verify that the fill is debris-free and uncontaminated beyond the NJRDCSRS or NJNRDCSRS standards.
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It’s gonna be interesting to see what the DEP, tells the village. On how to handle this contamination?
From a regulatory perspective, materials must actually be a “waste” in order to be a “solid waste” (RCRA Subtitle D) or “hazardous waste” (RCRA Subtitle C). In other words, if a medium such as soils is being used as fill, and its intended placement is for the purpose of fill as opposed to disposal, it is a product and not a waste. Sounds crazy, but true. Once you determine it is a waste, then you can move onto whether it meets the standards of hazardous but first, it must be waste.
Nothing in Coastal Zone Management (CZMA) or BUD determinations for CZ applies to Ridgewood. We are not geographically in the state coastal zone.
The bottom line is, can you grow vegetables in the material that’s at the site, and eat it. Would it be safe? How about cover the whole firm with Astroturf? He’ll be nice and green
Well people grow and eat stuff from the community garden behind Graydon field and that’s been flooded several times over. Talk about toxic, that has never been cleaned and should be shut down.
You could do plant bioassay and bioaccumulation testing but the clean up standards are probably derived from some of those experimental outcomes.
Just a guess that the village will downplay the situation at all costs until the official report comes out. Nothing to worry about. Keith Kazmark has it under control and everyone should remain calm and there will be a morning after.
#ChocolateTeapotTeamLeader
Well we have Rutishauser and he checks soil by eyeballing it and declaring it “fine.”
The term “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic” seems fitting for this Mayor & consistently aligned voting council who pride themselves on making sure our village looks to outsiders like a beautiful package wrapped with a beautiful bow. Unfortunately they keep on making one bad decision after another. Last year a furlough of staff was a near mis, what’s next? Why was it so important to prioritize a ballfield project over other more important projects. Simply to satisfy their massive egos and promises made to the sports community. PFAS in the water until 2026 and flooding that no one did anything about and was even part of Paul Vagianos 2017 campaign for assembly!
Poor judgement, nepotism, special intersts, overspending for pie in the sky pavillions and non essential items, giant fail, giant fiasco, day after day.
#RecallPaul
#CanPam
#WipeOutSwino&Weitz
Yes, he did-2017 platform, although he lost assembly, as Mayor, Vagianos did nothing about flooding for the fields he cares so much about.
https://ballotpedia.org/Paul_Vagianos
Flooding
Despite numerous studies and discussions over the course of many years, very little has changed for homeowners impacted by ongoing flooding. Bold, new action is required.
Hey mustache boy , That’s gonna be the stupidest common we ever heard from you. Oh the dirt looks by looking at it you are a jackass you walk around like you’re the man, you walk like Hunchback Quasimoto.👨🏻⚕️
Mustache boy got caught again, what a fool he should really resign before he gets fired. He over State as well already.
The inmates are running the asylum and nurse ratchet is getting the village’s new dumptruck ready with new soil. This outta be a hoot.