Two South Jersey towns — one urban, one suburban — show how millions from the federal infrastructure law might be used

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Camden is planning to renovate Elijah Perry Park. Moorestown has already upgraded the North Church Street Water Treatment Plant. Officials say it’s a glimpse of what’s to come as money starts to flow from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law.

In Camden, they plan to dig up Elijah Perry Park and renovate it with new basketball courts, a baseball diamond, a soccer field, a playground, and a gazebo at a cost of about $3 million.

The money comes from $1.5 billion allocated under the law for environmental justice, economic revitalization, and cleaning up contaminated properties. Overall, the law set aside $254.5 million in brownfields grants to 265 U.S. communities. The remaining $2.7 million from the $3.5 million the Camden Redevelopment Agency received will be split for cleanups at five other locations. The park itself will be paid for out of a mix of other funds.

In Moorestown, Mayor Nicole Gillespie said the township’s North Church Street Water Treatment Plant had to be shut down six years ago because of contamination. The plant reopened several years ago and now filters out the contaminant 1,2,3-trichloropropane and dioxin. The plant draws from a well 400 feet deep and pumps up to 3 million gallons of clean water a day.On Friday, the EPA announced $221 million in water infrastructure help for New Jersey.

 

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