1) The document discusses challenges with redeveloping brownfield sites in New Jersey municipalities. It provides examples of successful remediation projects in Northvale and Perth Amboy. 2) The Tect-Danzig site in Northvale involved removing 500 drums of solvents and waste, seven underground storage tanks with PCBs, and treating groundwater contamination over 15 years. 3) The 105-acre ePort site in Perth Amboy was used for smelting, lead paint production and other industrial uses. Over $30 million was spent to remediate the site and develop over 1 million square feet of industrial/warehouse space.

1. Challenges Associated with Developing
Brownfields in New Jersey Municipalities
Joseph Hochreiter, CGWP
Principal Scientist, Senior Environmental Consulting, LLC
Coordinator, Perth Amboy Waterfront BDA
New Jersey Future Redevelopment Forum 2016
“Navigating Brownfields : Creative Solutions for Problem Sites”
Successful Examples from Northvale (Bergen County) and Perth Amboy

2. Basic Concepts
• Municipalities by statute receive immunity from cleanup costs for
properties on which they foreclose for non-payment of taxes.
• Such immunity DOES NOT exist for properties that municipalities
own and operate (i.e., DPW Yard) or for acquired properties.
• LSRP is your gateway for Site Remediation compliance, so select
carefully and keep engaged through the remediation of most difficult
properties.
• Brownfields Development Area (BDA) designation gives
municipalities more control over developer selection, priority access
to HDSRF resources, and OBR consultation.
• For municipally owned sites, should municipality control
remediation, or should it be turned over to a developer? Pros and
Cons…
• When HDSRF is viable, it is effective in stimulating activity at
stubborn, abandoned sites. Prior viability has been an issue.
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3. Small-Town Remediation
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4. Small-Town Remediation
Tect-Danzig Site:
• 2.25-acre site in middle of town
• Tect, Inc. started in 1957 as distributor and manufacturer of chlorinated
solvents
• Business closed around 1970 with on-site burial of up to 500 drums of
solvent and waste in a large excavated pit
• SBA foreclosed on mortgage and site transferred to Danzig Holdings, Inc.
• Danzig Holdings operated until late 1990’s, then abandoned site. Borough
foreclosed and conducted PAR/SI.
• SI uncovered drums – work immediately stopped and new work plan
developed
• From 2000 - 2010, Borough used over $3 million of HDSRF to remove
source material, seven USTs (including PCBs), delineate groundwater
impact.
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5. Small-Town Remediation
Tect-Danzig Site (continued):
• In 2008, bifurcated site into publicly-funded GW operable unit and
borough-controlled soil operable unit. A rare site where GW is under State
control, while soil is under municipal/LSRP control.
• Borough retained LSRP in 2014 after developer signed 100-year lease
(Borough needed to own site for HDSRF support) and implemented soil
remedy (VI mitigation; hot-spot SVE; and capping).
• GW impact so severe that remediation will take decades, or longer.
• In 2000, USEPA Superfund sought control. Municipality opted to take
control under HDSRF. In 15-years, soil was remediated and site
redeveloped. How long would USEPA have taken?
• Ironically, USEPA may return to remediate GW operable unit (interstate
plume)
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“Navigating Brownfields : Creative Solutions for Problem Sites”

6. Small-Town Remediation
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8. Large-Scale BDA Remediation
Perth Amboy ePort Site:
• Focus 2000 designated waterfront development plans under NJ
Redevelopment Law; Redevelopment Agency created – PARA; Executive
Director retained; PARA designated redevelopers for each site within
redevelopment area.
• Initial site that was used to create BDA in 2007; 105-acre site used for
smelting-residuals disposal, lead-paint production, and various other
industrial uses dating back to 1880s. BDA twice expanded (2009; 2014) to
include additional waterfront areas.
• Mid-2000s PA/SI/RI of three component parts of ePort site. $3.5 million
investigation led to RAWP in 2008 (revised May 3, 2012) and implemented
by designated developer in 2013 – 2015 (2 years).
• Remediation cost over $30 Million; Over 1 million SF of light
industrial/warehouse being built presently. PILOT to City and jobs.
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9. Former Dutch Boy Buildings
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10. ePort 100-acre site, post demolition
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11. Wrap Up
• ePort Perth Amboy is what we typically think of as
Brownfields, however so is Tect, Inc.
• Which site posed greatest risk to HH&E?
• PA/SI/RI defines the COCs, extent of contamination; RAWP
describes remedial action to be taken.
• PA is ‘base of pyramid’ - $ spent here pay huge dividends
later; ASTM AAI Phase 1 is NOT sufficient to initiate NJ ‘Tech
Reg’ compliance.
• ‘Field Engineering’ sometimes is best approach for defining
and implementing remedy, however financial success of
project is based upon how well you know what is on the site.
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