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By Matthew Fazelpoor, NJ Business
Four New Jersey communities will receive $3 million through a recent round of federal grant funding. The awards come from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, and Cleanup (MAC) Grant Programs and Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grant Programs.
The brownfields initiatives work to transform once-polluted, vacant and abandoned properties into community assets. Additionally, they aim to create good-paying jobs and spur economic revitalization in these overburdened communities.
The four New Jersey brownfields grants went to:
Camden Lutheran Housing Inc., Camden – $1 million
To clean up the former West Jersey Paper Manufacturing site that housed West Jersey Paper Manufacturing Co. (1850-1967) and Latex Fiber Industries Inc. (1967-1974). The vacant site is contaminated with heavy metals, arsenic, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and PCBs.
Camden Redevelopment Agency, Camden – $500,000
To perform environmental site assessment efforts on the Federal Street Industrial and Commercial Corridor in the East Camden neighborhood.
Monmouth Conservation Foundation, Red Bank – $500,000
To perform environmental site assessments targeting a 210-acre portion of the west side of Red Bank.
Woodbine – $1 million
To support a range of activities including cleanup of the Old School site, the Hat Company site, a former landfill, and the Woodbine Municipal Airport
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