UPDATE on environmental cleanup:
Janaury 20,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Mayor Susan Knudsen provided an update on the “Town Garage ” site cleanup. The Ridgewood Village Council approved submission of a Brownfields Grant Application for the cleanup of contamination on and around the North Walnut Street municipal parking lot in the CBD. Brownfields are properties that may have hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants present. EPA’s Brownfields Program provides grants and technical assistance to communities, states, tribes and others to assess, safely clean up and sustainably reuse these contaminated properties. Cleaning up and reinvesting in brownfields protects human health and the environment, reduces blight, and takes development pressures off greenspaces and working lands.
Countless hours went into preparing the grant application followed by meetings for review. We hope for a positive response! Thanks to all who helped with this effort…especially resident volunteers!
glad something is finally getting done. Just wondering why the current private owners aren’t paying for it.
Is that garage being demolished as well?
It would make a terrific performing arts center.
Sure everybody lets put a garage there. So let buy the property and take it off the tax rolls. So lets hire consultants and traffic studies and after that lets build a garage and lets bond it for 30 years. Then you all can cry that your taxes are going up. Just like the taxpayers footed the bill for al of the studies at Hudson St. FOR NOTHING.
Wait is Mayor Knudsen saying we are buying the town garage site? How did I miss that one?
10:30 – you are right – who are the current owners and why are they not responsible for remediation?