News and
Articles:
Posted Sept. 27, 2006:
What is your flood risk?
Philadelphia Inquirer's depth article following Temple University's technically thorough re-drawing of a local waterway's floodplain. Rather than embracing the study, FEMA complained it was "too detailed". Very scary when the truthiness of possible flooding is more acceptable than the reality.
This is the current link to the article.
Posted Sept. 27, 2006:
Photos of exposed debris piles at SGA
Please see the btra blog for more information.
Please visit the photo album 2006 debris piles at:
Debris pile photos
Posted Sept. 22, 2006:
Pages linked below are the portion of the April 14, 2006 memo by Environmental Waste Management Associates where it unequivocally states that mercury dumps were found on the Scientific Glass property in the 1990’s and were carted out by EWMA in 2000 and 2001.
In 2002 Bob Spiegel of Edison Wetlands demonstrated on WNBC news with Brian Thompson how the SGA site was littered with broken mercury filled thermometers, contradicting claims by the developer/engineers the dirt was “clean enough to eat”.
Unbeknownst to us, the developers and remediation experts had already known about the dumps. After Thompson’s piece ran, the BTRA was accused of planting thermometers (you need Acrobat Reader):
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Star Ledger article about Bob Spiegel’s discovery of the broken thermometers on the site.
NJDEP denies permit to John DeSimone to build 38 townhouses on 5 acre floodplain site along the Third River and Spring Brook. Letter dated April 7, 2006 (you need Acrobat Reader):
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Independent Press article about the letter
March, 2006. Time to write another letter to the NJDEP responding to Fefferman NJDEP permit applications.
On Dec. 16, 2002 it took a total of 7 minutes for Judge Bernstein to reverse the December 2001 Bloomfield Planning Board denial of the Desimone/Tilter(Copek/Ruvo) application. After 5 long and technically complicated planning board
New Jersey Is Running Out of Open Land It Can Build on- New Jersey, far more densely populated than any other state – more crowded than Japan or India, for that matter – is
on course for another distinction: it will be the first state, land-use experts say, to exhaust its supply of land available for development
Bloomfield Third Riverbank UpDate: April 28, 2003 - Let's set the record straight
about the proposed developments at the Scientific Glass/Liongate site ...
The News Tribune April 8, 2003 - Edison values, protects open space.
Township environmentalists created a wish list in 1999. Calling Open Space the issues of the milleneum...
The Record/Herald News March 3, 2003 - Why it happens no one has adequately explained. But heavy rains leave their mark
in Woodcliff Lake today in a way they never did 10 or 15 years ago, and annoyed homeowners want something done about it.
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 2003 - // Locking Up N.J.'s Bad Guys
A rookie federal prosecutor finds success not by chasing the mob but by taking on the Garden State's corrupt politicians
Sayreville, NJ - // Kaplan and Sons Construction Company has just been issued an Administrative Order by the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection for violating numerous sections of New Jersey’s Water Pollution Control Act and now faces over $200,000 in penalties, and will be forced to
correct all violations and deficiencies.
January 2003 Update on Projects at Liongate site..letters to Bloomfield newspapers
September 10, 2002 3:30 AM: Bloomfield Planning Board votes
to APPROVE Leo Application to build 124 units on a flood plain of
the Third River. Board members voting IN FAVOR of the approval: Alan Laquaglia, David Beesley, John Zitka, John Mooney, Councilman Hamilton, Daniel McGonigle, John Petrinowsky. Voting to DENY the application: Donald Lawuee, Susana Sotilla.
At first, members of the Bloomfield Third Riverbank Association weren't sure what the chunks
of glass littering a portion of the former Scientific Glass site were.
See ToxFaqs at Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry for information on mercury
Thursday, August 22, 7:30 PM Bloomfield Town Hall ..the final meeting
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to hear the Leo Application for the Scientific Glass Site. Please come to the
News of finding mercury on the former
Scientific Glass/Clark thread plant site brought state Department (IP Aug.15,2002)
Board hears Leo realty application
Nick Joanow, leader of the Bloomfield Third Riverbank Association, explains Leo Town House plans June 8
June 11, 2002, Planning Board began hearing new Leo Proposal for 127/124 units
June 12, Master Plan (2 years in the making) is delayed again due to last minute comments by Planner for developer Greg Leo l
The Bloomfield Planning Board began hearing the new proposal for 127 units to be built on a flood plain of the Third River. The same developer failed to get approval for 115 units at this same site 9 months ago. .
BTRA sues Says councilwoman violated ethics law l
The Bloomfield Third Riverbank Association, which has been fighting two proposed townhouse developments on Liongate Drive filed a suit on Friday April 19 ,2002 .
Pair
with open land Love Bloomfield, but a deal's a deal
Pat Copeck and her sister, Mary Jane Ruvo, own one of the
last undeveloped pieces of land in Bloomfield -- 5.7 acres -- and they
plan to sell it.
Bloomfield
environmental activists joining forces
For the past few days, blue and green ribbons have
appeared on poles, houses and storefronts around Bloomfield.
The ribbons symbolize an ongoing fight by the Third
Riverbank Association to prevent a 150-unit condominium development from
being built near the Third River off Broad Street. The group complains the
project will worsen area flooding.
Bloomfield
council calls DEP lax on cleanup at Scientific Glass site
The Bloomfield Town Council said the state Department of Environmental
Protection "dropped the ball" by not informing them about the
cleanup going on at the contaminated former Scientific Glass property at 8
Lion Gate Drive, the site of a proposed condominium development.
Residents fear development will add water
woes
During Hurricane Floyd last September, Nick Joanow looked out
from his Lakewood Drive home in Bloomfield and saw chest-deep water creeping
up the street. Residents on the block, which is not far from the Third River, say there's
flooding anytime there's a significant amount of rainfall. The area has been
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