Green Jersey

One step closer to cleanup

The township of Brick is moving forward with efforts to remediate and redevleop its lone Superfund site, the old French’s Landfill (a.k.a. the Brick Township Landfill).

The township council is expected to adopt a resolution one week from today that commits Brick to redeveloping the site after it is cleaned, according to this story today in the Asbury Park Press.

The Press says the site has cost Brick hundreds of thousands of dollars in monitoring costs, and adds:

Business Administrator Scott M. Pezarras said the resolution is a necessary step in receiving state grants to help with the cleanup of the site.

Cleanup of the landfill has been a long, costly process. Brick taxpayers spent more than $4.3 million on remediation efforts between 1981 and 2006, according to the Brick Township Bulletin. In 1999, the township began to look into recovering some of those costs, and eventually won settlements from many of its former insurance carriers.

For more information on French’s Landfill, including a timeline of events, click here. For a study by the Agency for Toxic Subtances & Disease Registry of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service that discusses the relationship between the landfill’s chemicals and human health effects, click here.