The EPA has selected the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency for three brownfields cleanup grants {$600,000; three $200,000 grants} to clean up the 75 Woodward Street site, which has a long history of industrial and commercial use; the Garfield Junkyard site on Garfield Avenue, which was used primarily for auto repair and salvage; and the JR Transportation site at 1000 Garfield Avenue, which was used as a seed storehouse for more than 50 years and later bacame a bus maintenance facility. All three sites are contaminated with polyaromatic hydrocarbons and metals. Grant funds will be used to dispose of contaminated soil, place a two-foot cap on the properties and file deeds of notice for the sites.
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