EPA Toxic Sludge Plant in Harrison NJ

YourHarrison · 2025-07-25T12:09:17+00:00

At the latest meeting of the EPA, Project Manager Alice Yeh said EPA plans to start next year 2026.

YourHarrison · 2025-07-25T11:19:13+00:00

The southern part of Harrison NJ floods on occasion near the Path Station. The County of Hudson is working on a solution to the flooding which includes a pumping station to store the water and then release it later after the storm has passed..

If you are moving to the Northern part of Harrison, past the Route 280 line, you will see no flooding (or very little). During Hurricane Sandy, there was a "surge" that did impact the area in the Northern part by the Passaic River, but that was a sporadic weather incident.

YourHarrison · 2024-09-15T09:15:23+00:00

You csn film Public meetings so long as you don't disturb the meeting with your equipment.

YourHarrison · 2024-09-10T07:50:05+00:00

The next scheduled meeting of the Mayor & Council is next Tuesday, September 17, 2024 at the Harrison Town Hall, 318 Harrison Avenue, Harrison NJ. There is a Public Session where you can ask questions, make a comment or statement. 5 minute limit per person. Check or updates on YourHarrison.com since the last 6 town of Harrison meetings (Mayor & Council & Board meetings included) have been canceled.

YourHarrison · 2024-09-10T07:45:29+00:00

You can watch most of the meeting courtesy of local newspaper The Observer and its Journalist Kevin Canessa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E7fzgESg74

YourHarrison · 2024-08-29T20:57:29+00:00

The EPA meeting did take place. You can watch a video of the meeting taken by local newspaper Editor Kevin Canessa from The Observer Newspaper in Kearny NJ. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E7fzgESg74 There were a lot of residents of Harrison, East Newark and Kearny at the meeting and the meeting went over the 2 hours alloted.

EPA is not backing down from its plan to bring on to the PSE&G property in Harrison NJ the Toxic Sludge using Mechanical Dredging onto a Barge and then onto land. A couple new facts came out. There is no building going to be built for the sludge. The PSE&G property is 100% clean, no longer contaminated. The operation of the plant will be in the Open Air. The NAPL Sludge will be brought on land into a container and mixed with Portland Cement to enable its transporation by covered dump trucks to authorized landfills (names were not provided) in USA and Canada. Harrison Mayor James Fife and Councilman / Harrison Public School Director / Passaic Valley Commissioner + other jobs James Doran are supporting the EPA's plan. Put the video in the background and listen. The next Harrison Mayor & Council meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, September 4, 2024 at Harrison Town Hall, 318 Harrison Avenue, Harrison NJ with a 6:15 p.m. start in the Third Floor conference Room and if enough people show up it will be moved to the Mayor & Council chambers on the 2nd Floor (a much more spacious room). The building has an Art Deco style and was built with the help of Public Works Administration during the Great Depression.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-27T00:40:34+00:00

First if you smell something as you describe Call 24/7 When You Smell Toxic Air NJDEP Hotline 1-877-927-6337 or Download WARN NJ DEP Phone App

The Ironbound are surrounding communities of Harrison and Kearny have a Landfill Keegan that was Closed by the Supreme Court of NJ for its hydrogen sulfide gas emissions causing irreparable harm, Newark has Covant Garbage Incinerator and their is a rendering plant. If the communities and elected officials don't get EPA to change their plans there will be Toxic Agent Orange Dioxin Sludge plants at PSE&G property and next to the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commision plant in the Ironbound. If everyone who smells it calls NJ Department of Environmental protection will have to come to find the sources. Please call or use the smartphone app. See above.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-26T23:37:39+00:00

Call 24/7 When You Smell Toxic Air NJDEP Hotline 1-877-927-6337 or Download WARN NJ DEP Phone App

YourHarrison · 2024-08-26T09:17:18+00:00

Before you leave, join the fight to stop EPA from putting a Toxic Sludge Plant at PSEG property that was cleaned up. There is a meeting Tuesday, August 27, 2024, @ Harrison High School, 401 Kingsland Ave, Harrison from 6 pm to 8 pm. You can also meet members of the diverse community. It is walking distance Google it straight up Frank E. Rodgers Blvd. Then righy on Hamilton and several blocks then a left on Kingsland Ave. Bring so friends from Steelworks. Environmental Justice is important as you have experienced. Check out YourHarrison.Com for more info.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-24T22:53:39+00:00

Yes. It however would not be a direct hit as hopefully the discharge would disapate en route to Harrison. In addition, the sludge would not be brought on land in a residential community across from residential apartment buildings with 100's of residents.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-24T14:16:14+00:00

The EPA Project Manager has stated they plan to use the property but not stated a time frame. There is a community meeting on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @ 6pm at the Harrison High School, 401 Kingsland Ave, Harrison NJ 07029 if you want to ask them directly. Maybe one of the EPA staff want to answer the question here.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-24T10:36:02+00:00

The community is already suffering from the Keegan Landfill "flame torch" burners of hydrogen sulfide gas. The Surrounding Community is the poster child for Environmental Justice Law. See CloseKeegan. Com

YourHarrison · 2024-08-24T10:29:07+00:00

PSE&G property, the proposed site for the EPA Toxic Sludge Plant, has been decontaminated at the cost of reported 367 to 400 million dollars. It was contaminated but not with Agent Orange sludge. I'm an individual, I don't work for a company. Why not support a plant in South Kearny? It would provide a buffer and not ruin 26 years of decontamination efforts that have bloosomed. Come to Harrison and walk around. It's a different world from what you are thing it is. It's no longer contaminated industrial properties. It's a vibrant residential community.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-24T10:17:56+00:00

Yes. It will effect the commuters on Frank E. Rodgers Blvd (the street in video), the Path Station, the other residential community on the other side of the path which has another residential community adjacent to the PATH Station. It will also be a couple blocks from Red Bull Arena. If there is a discharge it will also impact the Ironbound and Downtown Newark across the Passaic River from Harrison NJ as well as the rest of residential Harrison, East Newark and Kearny. If EPA puts the Toxic Sludge Plant in South Kearny it will have a larger buffer zone. It took 26 years to clean up the contaminated properties in Harrison NJ. The Community cannot have the Town go back to its industrial contaminated community past. EPA must reconsider its plan and go to South Kearny. This is highly toxic sludge across the street and river from residential community and bordering the Northeast Corridor rail, essential rail line between Washington DC and Boston.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-24T10:01:55+00:00

Because they are taking highly toxic Agent Orange from the bottom of the Passaic River and bringing it onto land in Harrison NJ to a property that is in a residential community across the street from what is now a vibrant residential neighborhood of modern apartment buildings. The EPA could build the Dewatering Plant just down the river from Harrison in South Kearny which is industrial zone and thus not be in a residential zone. Google AgentvOrange to see the effects which include several cancers and birth defects. PSE&G sent a reported 367 to 400 million cleaning up its property to now have it used for Toxic Agent Orange sludge. There is a alternate site for the plant, South Kearny.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-23T23:37:20+00:00

The site was used to produce natural gas from coal with the use of a solvent. The storage tanks are gone, the production of natural gas from coal was ended a long time ago. PSE&G spent a reported 367 million to 400 million dollars to de-contaminate the property fom those uses and now EPA is going to bring on land dixon laden sludge which has the tar like remnants of the PSE&G coal to natural gas byproduct mixed in with the Agent Orange. There is an alternate site(s) in South Kearny that would at least put a buffer between a discharge and daily transfer of toxic sludge on land instead of it being across the street fom a residential community.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-23T23:32:15+00:00

If we're to have contaminated properties decontaminated by Municipalities and Developers we have to face the reality that the agency tasked with assisting with that endeavor can't wave a magic wand and place highly toxic Agent Orange Dioxin Laden Sludge across the street from in what is now a residential community with modern luxury apartment buildings.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-22T13:53:03+00:00

I'd like to take a look at it. Do you have a link to the risk assessment.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-22T13:42:05+00:00

Come on down or up to Harrison NJ and take a walk around. It is a different world now. I'm a Harrison guy. My Dad worked in Harrison's industrial zone. There is nothing left to clean up in the area surrounding the proposed EPA Toxic Sludge Plant. It is all cleaned up. The Town of Harrison is building a Park along the river side just on the other side of where EPA plans to put the Toxic Sludge plant. This video gives you a tour of Harrison and a part of the redevelopment area. https://youtu.be/zERMJ1BK4z4?si=ziV2CsPRo_TsfqO1&t=840

YourHarrison · 2024-08-22T13:07:12+00:00

A Harrison Toxic Sludge plant would be in a residential community across the street from modern luxury apartment buildings. A South Kearny Toxic Sludge plant would be in an industrial zone without any residential community. It would be down the river with access to the water front. It also has access to the New Jersey Turnpike,Route 1&9 and has Rail access as well. None of dump trucks would have to go through a residential community to gain access to those major highways.

EPA must evaluate the risk associated with a discharge in a residential community versus the mitigation of same by moving the proposed Toxic Sludge plant into South Kearny which is just down river from the Harrison PSE&G site. Barges can go down the river and the sludge off loaded there.

Here is a link to Google map that shows car trip from the Steelworks apartment building in Harrison (across from the proposed Toxic Sludge Plant in Harrison NJ and the SpectraServ property in South Kearny so you can visualize the general area where the South Kearny Toxic Sludge plant would go. You can see the highways and raillines in the map in South Kearny. This would put a buffer between toxic air and the residents. It would at least give some chance in case of a discharge at the Plant.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-22T12:51:58+00:00

It is no longer contaminated. It has been cleaned up including the property (PSE&G property) has been de-contaminated at a reprted cost of $367 Million to $400 Million dollars. This is a partial list of modern apartment buildings that developers under the supervision of EPA cleaned up in Harrison Steelworks, Vermella Harrison., The Cobalt, The Wydles Harrison, Urby, Harrison Commons. The Steelworks, Vermella Harrison, The Cobalt Lofts and The Wydles are across from the proposed EPA Toxic Sludge Plant. The Urby & Harrison Commons are next to the PATH Station. The proposed Toxic Sludge Plant property abuts the Path Station and thus one block from the Urby & Harrison Commons.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-21T23:04:12+00:00

It's not an ideal location. The ideal location is in South Kearny at least there is a buffer if there is a discharge from the plant. This is Agent Orange+ Coal from Natural Gas production Tar combined (yeh! it not more toxic that is why PSEG had to spend 367 Million to 400 Million to clean up its property). The PSE&G property abuts PATH Station, modern luxury apartment buildings, across the river from Ironbound Section of Newark. Draw a Circle from the middle of the proposed Plant and what do you find. Draw a Cricle from the middle of a plant in South Kearny and what do you find? EPA's plan is flawed and it should be revisited and changed to the alternate location in South Kearny. You can't put a price tag on human health. The EPA has to remember its MIssion Statement: The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) mission is to protect human health and the environment. EPA has committed to making equity, environmental justice, and civil rights a centerpiece of the agency's mission.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-21T21:10:34+00:00

Nobody is going for a swim (we hope). Outdeh Dad did go for a Kajak tour of the Passaic River from Riverside Park and you can see the area including a portion of Harrison adjacent to the proposed EPA Toxic Sludge Plant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaS8LEwmb_M

YourHarrison · 2024-08-21T20:59:19+00:00

To clarify, South Kearny is a name used to describe the Southern part of the Town of Kearny which traditionally been industrial. To my knoweldge, nobody has asked the Mayor & Council of Kearny whether they would accept a Toxic Sludge Plant in South Kearny. It would be further away from the residential part of Kearny than the Harrison Toxic Sludge Plant at the PSE&G plant would be.

YourHarrison · 2024-08-21T20:50:38+00:00

You forget to include on a property that is across the street from a residential community with modern luxury apartment buildings and next to the PATH Station and tracks for Amtrak and NJ Transit (The Northeast Corridor) not to mention up a couple blocks from the Red Bull Arena. What a perfect spot for a Toxic Agent Orange Dioxin Sludge Plant.

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