Middlesex County Utilities Authority completes permanent restoration of Sayreville Pump Station
Middlesex County Utilities Authority completes permanent restoration of Sayreville Pump Station
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Director of the Middlesex County Commissioners Ronald G. Rios cuts the ribbon at the Sayreville Pump Station alongside County, MCUA, and NJ Infrastructure Bank officials. PHOTO COURTESY OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS
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Middlesex County Commissioner Charles Tomaro; Director of the Middlesex County Commissioners Ronald G. Rios; MCUA Executive Director Joseph P. Cryan; New Jersey Assemblyman Robert Karabinchak; and Executive Director of NJ Infrastructure Bank David Zimmer. PHOTO COURTESY OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS
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Director of the Middlesex County Commissioners Ronald G. Rios cuts the ribbon at the Sayreville Pump Station alongside County, MCUA, and NJ Infrastructure Bank officials. PHOTO COURTESY OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY OFFI
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If all goes well, a new pump station, which will service both Metuchen and Edison, will be up and running in a year-and-a-half.
The Metuchen Borough Council moved to amend a bond ordinance for the construction of the new pump station at a meeting on March 8 to reflect an increase of the final design and engineering cost estimate of the whole project by $1.16 million. The total bond ordinance is now $5.26 million from $4.1 million, which was approved in February 2020.
“We are now at the stage of final design and we’re about to submit the plans to [the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)] and the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank for financing,” said Jay Muldoon, the borough’s director of special projects. “The increase is related to several things. Primarily when the feasibility study was done over two years ago, in any kind of project like this, you have some initial assumptions regarding size of the pump station, location where it’s going t
UpdatedWed, Mar 3, 2021 at 7:27 pm ET
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Aries Clean Energy wants to build a biosolid treatment plant in Newark, New Jersey. Local residents and advocates have been pushing back against the company s proposal. Above, a view from Doremus Avenue, near the proposed location of the facility. (Google Maps)
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An environmental standoff has been building over the past few weeks in New Jersey s largest city, where a proposed waste treatment facility is drawing fire from local residents.