What Should We Do Now with the Encap Site?
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › October 09, 2007
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ENCAP is becoming New Jersey's environmental soap opera - the project is on the verge of default as the state last week cut off funding for the project. There are more than $3 million in citations by the DEP and taxpayers, stuck for tens of millions of dollars because of this project. With problems at the Encap site rising to the surface faster than the toxic chemicals in the landfill, it's time to take a new look and see what changes can be made.
The controversial EnCap proposal includes two golf courses, 2,000 units of housing and half a million square feet of commercial and office space. This is one of the largest projects being proposed in New Jersey, and it has major environmental implications. The original purpose of this project was to clean up and stabilize landfills in the Meadowlands that are leeching into the Hackensack River, but it has become instead a boondoggle, a pork barrel, and a symbol of everything that's wrong with pay to play in New Jersey.See the full content of this document
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What Should We Do Now with the Encap Site?
What may have started out as a good idea has turned into an environmental and financial disaster.
Putting 5,000 people on top of a landfill containing numerous toxics is not a good idea. Compounding the problem, r...See the full content of this document
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