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Liberty State Park Terminal Re-Opens: Continued Wharf Reconstruction Won’t Interfere with Ferry Rides!
Jersey City's day-long Freedom & Fireworks Festival at Liberty State Park celebrated on Independence Day last week was a milestone in the history of the park as it also marked the reopening of the Park’s Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal (CRRNJ) that sustained severe damage from SuperStorm Sandy’s 11 ft. storm surge in 2012. The $20 million project to restore this iconic brick building has given it a new lease on life more than 125 years after the terminal was initially finished. ... Read More
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Municipalities Unite at the 2015 NJSLOM Conference & NJSME Awards
In New Jersey, the largest municipal event by far is heralded in by the NJ State League of Municipalities’ (NJSLOM) Annual Conference held within the casinos of Atlantic City, NJ. This 3-day long event is filled with handshaking, info-booths, making friends, enjoying the festivities, developing business contacts and a chance to compare notes with any one of the 565 municipalities ... Read More
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Environmental Update with Bob Zelley, PG, LSRP
GUIDANCE FOR CONTAMINATED SITE OWNERS The purpose of this entry is to provide regulatory guidance for a Responsible Party of a contaminated site located in New Jersey. The following describes the requirements for project oversight and the retention of a Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP) as required by the NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). According ... Read More
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Breathing Life Back into Union County’s Four Lakes
Built during the Great Depression, Nomahegan Park was designed by the Olmsted Brothers landscape architectural firm. As the sons of renowned landscape architect and Central Park designer, Fredrick Law Olmsted, the brothers designed the park with the beautiful, 7.5-acre Nomahegan Lake as the centerpiece. The Brothers previously designed three other Union County parks in a ... Read More
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West Front Street Bridge Improves Red Bank Traffic Flow
The sound of metal rattling and the feel of the ground shaking are probably familiar side effects for anyone crossing the West Front Street Bridge that connects Red Bank to Middletown. The original West Front Street Bridge (Monmouth County S-17) was built in 1921, and due to extensive deterioration, the bridge was replaced with a ... Read More
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DEP Site Remediation Reform Act (SRRA) Extensions
Governor Christie signed Assembly Bill A-4543, allowing DEP to grant two year extensions for the completion of certain remedial investigations under the Site Remediation Reform Act (SRRA), which previously required that any site at which a remediation obligation arose on or before May 7, 1999, and for which a remedial investigation had not been submitted ... Read More