Category Archives: Pollution

Boating and other activities return to the Navesink River after a sewer main break prompted warnings about water quality. (click to read)

RED BANK: "Vapor mitigation systems" installed at Marion Street condo complex built on former dry cleaner site.

RED BANK: Enforcement won't start until July. But many eateries are already following a new "by request only" plastic utensil law.

RED BANK: To celebrate the pretty yellow flowers demonized by the lawn industrial complex, we held a dandelion display contest for Earth Day. Meet the winner.

RED BANK: From a "trashion show" of dresses made of garbage to displays on how to save a school from sea level rise, photos from the Earth Day Green Fair.

RED BANK: Public utilities department reminds residents that there are only two remaining brush pickups scheduled for the year.

RED BANK: Two years after garden shutdown, DEP outlines $2.6M plan to excavate and replace lead-contaminated soil from nearby residential properties.

RED BANK: More than two years after community garden shutdown over possible lead contamination, DEP will give a public presentation Tuesday.

RED BANK: More than a century after it was used as a gas works, a borough property may get some 20th-century environmental remediation.

RED BANK: What's Going On since community garden was shut down over contamination concerns 13 months ago? We have an update.

RED BANK: With no bids submitted for trash contract, borough will go to interim pact to avert an "emergency" – at an extra cost of $10k per month.

RED BANK: With borough about to award its second private trash collection contract, here's a chance for residents to weigh in on pickup frequency.

RED BANK: After five years of private trash collection, borough plans to survey residents and businesses about garbage and recycling pickups.

RED BANK: What's Going On since community garden shutdown over contamination concerns? Tests that could involve properties hundreds of feet away.

RED BANK: Community gardeners air concerns about borough's "sense of urgency" following facility's closure over presence of lead in soil.

RED BANK: Tests of community garden soil finds elevated lead in one sample, but at a depth NJDEP says requires "no immediate response." More tests expected.

RED BANK: Borough shuts community garden in "abundance of caution" after neighbor's testing of its soil appear to show lead contamination, Shehady says.

LITTLE SILVER: It's all but in the bag that the borough will ban plastic store bags and straws, with the reluctant acceptance of the business community.

RED BANK: Can't remember when to put out recycling or brush for pickup? Borough DPU posts a new downloadable schedule for 2019.

ON THE GREEN: New rules concerning plastic bags used to hold recyclables for curb pickup kicking in locally, thanks to China.