In one snip, officials cut the chain to an illegal dump site at 7th and Chestnut streets in the city’s Bergen Square Neighborhood. It’s the beginning of a remediation project that will take several months to clean up.
As officials walked on the property Monday, two men in black polo shirts from Montrose Environmental Group began the work of assessing the property. They will conduct dirt samples and characterize the material on site between now and November.
Camden County and the City of Camden were able to access the property because its current owners, Weyhill Realty Holdings, were not taking any action to address the 70,000-ton nuisance.
Things started moving to begin remediating the site of toxic dirt and other icky-ness towards the end of summer, when the City of Camden, Camden County, Camden Redevelopment Agency, and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection entered into a memo of understanding that opened a path for the site to finally get cleaned up.