CAMDEN - Visitors walking the deck of the Battleship New Jersey museum must tread around dings and holes in rotted wood, but a new state grant will help finance ongoing deck replacement.
The New Jersey Historic Trust has approved $500,000 for deck work for the Battleship New Jersey Memorial and Museum on the Camden waterfront.
New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver was to present the capital grant check to museum officials Thursday on the decorated World War War II-era ship.
After a winter hiatus, the museum will open weekends beginning Saturday and daily April 1. However, the tourist attraction is holding no events and only limited touring with social distancing and face masks required due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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KNOX RIC Energy, which has proposed a 4.4 megawatt solar facility on Thompsons Lake Road, in Knox, has sent a letter to the Knox Planning Board that rejects the concerns of the Albany County Planning Board, which issued its disapproval of the project last month.
At its March 11 meeting, the Knox Planning Board will discuss whether to move forward with the project despite county disapproval. A supermajority vote five of the board’s seven members is required.
The county planning board cited eight reasons for its decision, including the project’s supposed visibility from Thacher Park, as well as residents’ objections, various local and intermunicpality impacts, unfulfilled bureaucratic requirements, and the project’s proximity to Thacher Park and parcels within an agricultural district.
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Jan. 9, 2020: A worker hands a piece of lead pipe to a colleague as they work to remove water service lines in Trenton.
If you want to know whether your local water system contains lead service lines, meets state requirements for treating bacteria, spends money on annual maintenance, or has an affordability program for households, where do you turn?
Customers can now get all that and a slew of other information from Jersey Water Check, a website believed to be the first of its kind in the United States that consolidates granular information on the condition of each one of the state’s water systems and whether they meet a set of industry best-practice standards, in a user-friendly format in one place.
Hudson County View
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
“At 8:00 p.m., on August 13, 2020, our certified laboratory notified our water system that a sample collected on August 12, 2020 confirmed the presence of E. coli in our water system’s drinking water,” the letter begins.
“When this occurs, we are required to conduct a Tier 1 public notification to inform customers of the event and how we plan to correct deficiencies that potentially caused the contamination.”
The letter continues that while a Tier 1 public notification was issued on August 14, 2020, the state Department of Environmental Protection identified three deficiencies with this notice.
For one, the initial public notification had an end date and time for the boil water advisory – pieces of information that aren’t supposed to be included.