Woodbridge Wins $28K EPA Grant to Teach Students About Pollution in Keasbey
The money is going to educate students in the township's three high schools about pollution at the Keasbey Superfund site along the Raritan River
Woodbridge just won an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) award to teach students from the township's three high schools about the causes of pollution along the Raritan River - particularly about the Keasbey brownfield that may someday be turned into a riverside oasis. The $27,800 grant is to be used for the "Woodbridge Township Wetlands Restoration Education Project," according to an EPA press release. The money is to be devoted to educational activities at the old Nuodex site in the Keasbey section of the township, an area which Mayor John McCormac is hoping to turn into a waterfront park. Just last week, the township announced yet again that a 700 megawatt gas-powered electric generation facility will be located on the site. It's …
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