New Jersey has decided to allow building a new backup power plant at one of the country’s largest sewage treatment facilities
FILE - Sections of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Authority plant are seen in Newark, N.J. A proposed backup power plant for the facility is drawing strenuous opposition from residents who say their neighborhood is already overburdened with polluting facilities, including two other power plants. On July 18, 2024, New Jersey environmental officials allowed the project to be built, subject to conditions they say will reduce overall pollution coming from it.
An important consideration is making sure that raw sewage discharges do not happen again, LaTourette said. Officials from the existing plant, the sixth largest out of 16,000 in the nation, say the backup power source is a critical safeguard against raw sewage entering waterways, or even city streets during a power outage.; this would be the fifth power plant to operate in their community.environmental justice lawMatthew Smith, director of the Food & Water Watch environmental group, said the decision “betrays the governor’s promise of clean air for all New Jerseyans.
The commission will have to install 5 megawatts of solar panels, 5 megawatts of battery storage, additional pollution equipment on sludge treatment boilers, and remove and upgrade older equipment including boilers and generators. LaTourette said he recognizes that residents will be skeptical if not outright hostile to the decision, given the legacy of pollution sources that were placed in Newark's Ironbound section, which gets its name from the train tracks surrounding it on three sides.
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