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The project will remediate an old project in Camden, N.J.
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The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has committed to spend $25 million to remediate a former landfill in Camden, N.J. and it into a new waterfront park.
The site will be transformed into a 62-acre waterfront park in the next two years. Camden Mayor-Elect Frank Moran grew up in the Cramer Hill neighborhood, two blocks away from the site. As a child he said the landfill was the closest thing to green space for kids in the neighborhood.
Now it truly will be for a future generation.
NJPen.com has the details:
Outgoing NJDEP Commissioner Bob Martin said the project has been a priority for his eight-year tenure under Gov. Chris Christie, and that the agency “wanted to make sure that we finished this and we moved it forward” before he left office.
“We spent over $26 million of hazardous discharge site remediation money to help clean up the site you’re standing on as part of the Kroc Center,” Martin said Wednesday at a press conference announcing the project.
“Probably the most important thing to us is the emphasis of the quality of life; making sure there is a future for the children of these neighborhoods,” he said.
After the remediation is complete, the Cramer Hill waterfront park will feature one mile of stabilized shoreline along the banks of the Delaware and Cooper Rivers, freshwater tidal wetlands, a fish pond, and recreational trails throughout.
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