I first wrote about Hoffman Grove back in 2006 when I explored the area after one of the homes there was listed in the paper for sale. $200K for a house in Wayne? Yeah, what’s the catch? Oh yeah… constant flooding. Read the original post for the full story, but I found much had changed [...]
Archive for the ‘Environmental Issues’ Category
8 Oct
Some interesting stuff in the paper: an irish bar and a bunch of worries about pollution.
This bar in Denville seems pretty cool. It’s only the second thatched roof Irish bar in the United States. In bridgewater Twp, a superfund site got submerged in over 10 feet of water for a long time. Did those water leech toxins and move them around? Probably. Shipwrecks off the jersey and Maryland coastline are [...]
3 Jul
State recommends blood tests for lead poisoning but few show up
The state recommended that residents of Upper Ringwood, especially children, get tested for lead poisoning because of the contaminaton left there decades ago by the Ford Motor company. Several remediation efforts have removed thousands of tons of chemical waste but their presence has left high levels of chemical residue in the ground. High rates of [...]
11 Jun
Two amazing military finds
Find #1: These guys snuck aboard some abandoned naval vessels out SF. and we thought we were badass sneaking into Greystone. My only complaint is: you snuck aboard an abandoned Destroyer and you only post a dozen pictures? WTF dude! Find #2: An abandoned military base (Vozdvizhenka Air Base apparently). I can’t be sure because [...]
12 Apr
The Belle Meade Depot
The GSA-Belle Mead Depot was located in Hillsborough and had several purposes thru its history. It was primary a warehouse and there were numerous railroad lines running into the facility. During WWarII, the facility was used as sort of 20thc Guantanamo, housing Italian POW’s. After the Vietnam war, the property was then turned over to [...]
29 Mar
Hanover airport in Morris County
East Hanover Airport is located in Hanover NJ close to Route 280. It is located in what was the Glacial Lake Passaic. This was an area that was carved out by the last glaciers of the ice age that ended roughly 15,000 years ago. The area of Lincoln Park, Hanover, Chatham and the surrounding area [...]
18 Jan
Recent news
Bergen record article on a study of some really really old rocks in Passaic County AMC is bringing it’s “dine-in theaters to NJ, but they’re only coming to central jersey for now. I wanna try this even if it means going down to Bridgewater jsut for a movie. A stockpile of 2600 tons of mercury [...]
15 Dec
Ford payouts don’t make up for the damage they inflicted
Anyone who lives in the Bergen County area knows that Ford motor company fucked the town of Ringwood and the indian tribe that lives there. Over a period of 3 decades they dumped paint and toxic sludge into old mines and sometimes along the sides of the roads in Ringwood. The materials came from a [...]
25 Aug
Still wouldn’t help exit 13 on the NJTPK.
To neutralize the smell of the Middlesex County landfillthey’re spraying citrus scent to mask it.
17 Jul
Washington twp farm purchased and preserved as open space.
The farm is the 65th tract to be preserved.
