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Board urges borough to request certified clean fill for West Lenox Avenue bridge permit
Summary
Planning board members recommended asking Passaic County to use certified clean fill when replacing the West Lenox Avenue and Herschel bridges, citing concern about fill provenance and town-owned approaches near the river.
The board discussed a county-led bridge replacement project affecting West Lenox Avenue and Herschel (Herschel Park) and recommended that borough administrators ask Passaic County to use certified clean fill for approach regrading where town property is affected.
A board member described the county’s wetland permit submittal for bridge removal and replacement and said the work will require minor amounts of fill for regrading. The member urged a requirement that any imported fill be certified clean, either by origin certification or sampling that meets New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) standards, to avoid importing material from unspecified or potentially contaminated sites.
Board members asked staff to send that recommendation to the borough administrator so the administrator can follow up with the county. The discussion also included a separate exchange about an active landfill cited by a board member expressing concern about continued truck traffic and height, and general comments that some remediation and closure efforts are in court and not under immediate local control.
The board did not take a formal vote on the recommendation but recorded a clear consensus to ask the administrator to convey the town’s preference for certified clean fill to county project managers.
