So in your mind, is it just undevelopable land in perpetuity? Would you put it on the same level as John's Manville and American Cyanamid? You raised a point and I felt there needed to be some clarification, because it isn't so cut and dried.

So yeah, just in general, are you opposed to building on top of contaminated sites blanketly? And if that's the case it's obviously fine, I just like to know where someone is coming from when they say things.

They don't. Somerville's landfill continues to operate and they're putting solar panels over top of it without the need to drill down into it.

Yeah, my understanding of the site (and I'm going back a number of years to the planning board meetings for the development) basically broke the site into two parts, one that acted as the landfill, and the other that was more open space where dumping occurred of mainly construction debris and whatnot.

I am hopeful that standards for developing on sites like this have improved since the early 2000s and 1990s. I say hopeful because I can't say 100% yes, because I don't know what the standards were back then, but for this site, with cutting it in half, and then remediation efforts on the residential portion, removing fill, adding screens, and capping entirely, outside of radioactive waste, exposure potential is practically zero.

And the areas that still are functioning landfill are not even being disturbed, but for some roads to access the solar panels. The panels won't even be in the ground, they're sitting on top of the lawn essentially, with ballast of course.

I understand concern with it, but it comes down to either using or not using the site. Exclude the fact that it was a landfill and it's a great location between two major thoroughfares to travel in all directions. I believe the LSRP process the DEP utilizes now is much more effective at monitoring remediation efforts.

Also, I'm pretty sure half the units are for ownership too, which IMO is better than just offering rentals. Giving folks an opportunity to get equity is always a good thing.

Apartments, solar field for a community solar project, and "green seam" walking paths. Kind of hits all the needs of a community, totally making use of an otherwise unusable site.

Really living up to that username.

Your local MUA probably do tours of the wastewater treatment facility. So if you're into shit, check it out.

Went in there once. Was packed and dirty. Everyone in the place seemed like they hated being there. Left without getting anything.

I know you're joking and I appreciate that you didn't use /s.

Watched Scared Stupid a million times growing up, and nowy kids watch it. I hope to have it passed down through generations, was a great flick.

Valvoline in Raritan Borough on Route 206 south of the circle, sit in your car, and if you go at an odd time you're in and out in 30m.

I used to, but the cost savings ended up being negligible, don't need to dispose of the oil, and a whole slew of other reasons.

Branchburg is huge, 20 square miles, and sends their kids to 2.5 square mile Somerville's high school. It's a relic of a time when branchburg was just farms and it made sense, but as the state has grown, things have failed to maintain pace.

Every other thread is "Hey I'm moving to NJ, where should I live?!?!?!"

Land is expensive.

A rear-end hit will almost certainly result in liability going 100% to the car in the rear, unless there's some incontrovertible proof that OP did something ridiculous, and then even then it'd only shift partially.

That being said, driver fled, hopefully OP has UM/UIM.

Except that's Island Beach State Park, not LBI.

Yeah, I've had my one tag since 2010. I never thought to update it, because I had no reason to. It recently just died, and I just left Delaware EZPass to bring it home to NJ.

I emailed them because I did the same exact thing. I had them send me two tags, in fact, and both went to an address I moved out of 12+ years ago. After that they kindly told me to fuck off, and that if I want a new tag they're charging me for it.

Saw some pictures of the inside, looks great.