REPORT
SUMMER 2008
New Jersey’s
Energy Master Plan
Emission
Inventories and
Energy Audits
ANJEC in the CIty:
A Room Without
A View
Director’s Report
Permit Extension and Beyond
In June the state Legislature rushed the
Permit Extension Act from introduction to
passage in about three weeks, with little
time for discussion or deliberation. However, environmentalists and municipal
officials were able to marshal their forces
against the bill and the Legislature made
several amendments to lessen the impact on
the environment and local planning.
The amendments included
● Reducing the extension period from six
to two and a half years, now ending
December 31, 2010;
● Excluding state permits given under
authority delegated by the federal
government.
● Exempting certain state areas.
o The Pinelands and Highlands except
for designated growth areas;
o The coastal zone except for six
designated centers; and
o Land designated as environmentally
sensitive in the State Plan.
Still the Act has some environmentally
harmful provisions.
● Reinstates all permits and approvals that
expired anytime up to 18 months ago,
with no provision for public participation or opportunity for due process for
impacted property owners;
● Hinders actions of many towns that
recently adopted environmental
ordinances to protect features like
stream corridors and steep slopes, or
have implemented innovative land use
planning such as transfer of development rights, cluster, transit villages or
conservation zones.
Under the Act, the New Jersey Department
of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) and
other agencies will have to create a list of
extended permits. Towns will then need to
double-check their approved development
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applications to decide which permits are
eligible for extension.
More to Come
The Permit Extension Act is the first of
12 bills proposed by the Smart Growth
Economic Development Coalition, an
advocacy group that includes real estate
and development-related trade associations, business organizations and labor
unions, affordable housing advocacy
groups and a planning group.
Among its proposed bills are
● The State Planning Act Amendments
to ensure that state agencies and local
governments follow the State Plan. The
State Planning Commission would
become citizen-based, with all commissioners being public members. Cabinetdepartment heads would have ex-officio
status without a vote. The chair would be
a cabinet-level gubernatorial appointee.
The Plan would guide growth, investment
and regulatory decisions.
● Amendments to the Revenue Allocation District (RAD) Financing Act to
broaden revenue sources for repaying
bonds for urban redevelopment costs
and permit use of RADs without having
to satisfy requirements aimed at curbing
eminent domain abuses.
● Expansion of Brownfields Program to
permit use of Hazardous Discharge
Remediation Fund for redevelopment in
any designated smart growth area, not
just on brownfield sites.
● Amendments to Fast Track to remove
the Act’s provision that developers pay
for accelerated reviews of their applications, and shift the Smart Growth
Ombudsman’s responsibilities from
reviewing individual development
applications to working with state
agencies to streamline permit review and
expedite permit appeals in smart growth
areas.
● Creation of Science and Policy Review
Boards to create two external review
boards in NJ DEP to review science and
policy issues related to environmental
regulation.
● Streamlining of Brownfield Review
Process to establish timeframes for
NJDEP review and approvals, and allow
licensed professionals to oversee the
remediation of lower priority sites.
● Elimination of “Time of Decision” Rule
to freeze local ordinances in place when
a development application is formally
submitted to a municipal land use
board. Currently, local ordinances can
be changed until the municipal board’s
time of decision.
The Legislature will probably introduce
these bills, or variations of them, after the
summer recess. The same coalition of
environmentalists and municipal officials
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New Jersey’s
Energy Master
Plan
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By Kerry Miller, ANJEC Assistant Director
his spring, the NJ Board of Public
Utilities (BPU) rolled out plans and
programs that are the first salvo in the
struggle to meet our state’s long-term
energy goals. In April, the Board released
its Draft New Jersey Energy Master Plan
(EMP), and the companion Implementation Strategies document.
The Energy Master Plan is not just an
environmental document, by any means.
It addresses conservation, greenhouse gases
and global warming, but within the context
of a multi-pronged strategy the BPU is
proposing to carry out its overarching
mission – insuring an adequate, reliable and
affordable energy supply for the state. In
this Plan, the BPU contends that New Jersey
cannot count on any of these things, even
for the present, much less the future,
without some big changes.
The EMP projects that, in a “business as
usual” scenario, New Jersey will increase its
energy demand by about 1.5 percent
annually, to consume 100 GWh (1 gigawatt hour = 1 billion watt hour) and 590
TBtus (trillion British thermal units of
energy) per year by 2020. Our state does
not have the capacity to generate, nor the
infrastructure to import, this much power.
This scenario would also increase the cost
of power prohibitively, and generate
approximately 90 million metric tons of
CO2 per year – a 14.5 percent increase over
2005 levels – at a time when the state has
committed to a 20 percent reduction in
greenhouse gases by 2020.
The EMP deals with oil, natural gas and
electricity, but the bulk of the narrative is
devoted to electricity – the most complex,
if not the most fundamental, component
of our energy picture. Confounding
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Highlights of the ANJEC EMP
comments
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More aggressive goals for energy
conservation and renewable energy
development;
Add specific strategies for geothermal, wave power and hydropower
under 30 MW;
Require energy assessments and/or
other efficiency imrovements before
awarding rebates or other incentives
for renewable generation;
Avoid building new transmission
lines in environmentally sensitive
areas;
Don not activate unused farmland to
grow energy crops.
factors include deregulation of the power
industry, aging and inefficient power plants,
inadequate distribution (grid) infrastructure, the global nature of oil and natural gas
markets, and steep increases in the price of
every type of energy since 2007.
ENERGY MASTER PLAN
The EMP’s five basic goals are to:
● Maximize energy conservation;
● Reduce peak electricity demand;
● Increase generation of renewable
energy;
● Build low-carbon-emitting power
plants; and
● Boost New Jersey’s economy through
investments in clean energy technologies and businesses.
Goal #1
The first Goal, to maximize the state’s
energy conservation and energy efficiency to
achieve reductions in energy consumption of
at least 20 percent by 2020, is at the top of
the list for good reason. These initiatives
are very cost-effective, and should be the
easiest to “sell” to businesses and individuals based on a relatively quick return on
investment. Each conventionally-produced
watt or Btu (British thermal unit of energy)
saved through conservation/efficiency
helps to reduce the overall cost of energy
and means less CO2 emitted into the
atmosphere, which will help New Jersey
reach its greenhouse gas reduction goals.
Conservation and Efficiency Action Items
● Redesign/enhance the state’s current
energy efficiency programs to emphasize a “whole building” approach;
● Revise (through legislation) the state’s
building code by 2009 to require new
construction to be 30 percent more
energy efficient;
● Set (through legislation) new energy
efficiency standards for appliances and
equipment by 2009;
● Increase education and outreach to
promote energy conservation, efficiency
and renewables.
Although conservation is the lowhanging fruit of the EMP, the BPU’s 20
percent reduction target through these
strategies will be a challenge. For example,
to reach the goal, approximately 300,000
buildings per year will need to be audited
and retrofitted, far exceeding the number
of buildings BPU converted over the last
six years.
Goal #2
Goal #2 deals with peak demand, the
highest levels of electricity use/demand that
occur on hot summer days. Surprisingly, peak
demand totals only about 50 hours per year,
but those hours are tremendously disruptive
and expensive for our state. Unchecked at a
projected growth rate of 1.75 percent per
year, peak demand for power will cost a
fortune, and will necessitate building new
transmission lines and importing more dirty
power from other states.
The EMP suggests a number of new or
expanded pricing strategies for commercial,
industrial and possibly residential users, as
well as incentives to discourage the use of
electric power during peak periods. It also
proposes a shift toward more decentralized
generation in the form of CHP (combined
heat and power) or CCHP (combined
cooling, heat and power). With CHP,
commercial facilities host their own gas- or
biodiesel-fired generators. By tapping the
waste heat from that production to satisfy
their own heating and cooling needs, they
achieve up to 80 percent overall energy
efficiencies. The Plan proposes 1500 MW
(megawatts) of CHP and CCHP by 2020 to
help moderate the peaks in demand that
stress the grid and raise the cost of electricity.
Goal #3
Goal #3, "to meet 22.5 percent of the
state’s electricity needs from renewable
sources by 2020," is consistent with New
Jersey’s Renewable [Energy] Portfolio
Standard, established by law
(NJSA 14:8-2.1). Increased
energy production via
renewable resources will
decrease demand for fossil
fuels, ease pressure on
traditional generating
facilities, and reduce CO2
production. The Plan
proposes 16,000 GWh total
North Hudson Sewerage
Authority Solar installers at
Midtown Community School
in Bayonne (Hudson)
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per year from renewables, which, by the
state’s definition, include biomass, solar
(target: 1,500 GWh per year), and wind
power (target: 2,800 GWh offshore, 500
GWh onshore).
Goal #4
Goal #4 addresses the 54,000 GWh
annual deficit BPU projects that will exist
even after New Jersey achieves a 20 percent
reduction in demand (through conservation
and efficiency) from the 2020 business-asusual projection. The BPU expects that many
power plants in use today will have been
retired by 2020 because they are old,
expensive and/or polluting, and so forecasts
that New Jersey will have to close the power
gap through new generation facilities.
Any new power plants will have to emit
less carbon to meet New Jersey’s greenhouse gas targets. And there, for environmentalists, lies the 700 pound gorilla of
the EMP – the debate about new nuclear
power plants. Does the state believe that an
additional nuclear plant is the only logical
way to meet our power demands, even
after making significant gains through
conservation, efficiency and use of renewable and other decentralized energy
sources? The EMP stops slightly short of a
definitive “yes,” but it forecasts public
meetings in late 2008 to discuss the need
for a new nuclear plant, including siting,
permitting, financing and waste disposal
issues. PSE&G has already issued its
opinion that an additional nuclear facility
is necessary, and that planning should
begin now in order to have a plant
running by 2020.
Suggested Document Additions
This article is but a cursory look at a
very long and complicated document. The
Draft Energy Master Plan and Implementation Strategies would be improved, for
the lay person, by the inclusion of a
glossary and a tally sheet that lays out the
numerical goals, assumptions and predictions in one place.
Is the EMP too optimistic or not optimistic enough? Are the assumptions valid?
What has been left out? In addition to
initial tweaking, the Master Plan will need
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frequent updates to keep up with the
changing global energy and climate change
picture. The BPU’s success, or lack thereof,
in promoting and implementing its initial
conservation and efficiency goals will be
evident very quickly, because the early
efforts are the low-hanging fruit. If they
don’t pan out, future, more difficult initiatives will certainly come into question.
It is also important to note that the Plan
doesn’t deal at all with transportationrelated energy use, because that is not the
realm of the BPU. Promised for release
later this year is a separate plan, developed
by NJ Department of Environmental
Protection, NJ Department of Transportation and other agencies. With plug-in
electric cars on the horizon, one wonders if
the transportation energy plan will bounce
the ball back into BPU’s court before the ink
is dry on its EMP. Meanwhile, after comments and hearings on the Draft Energy
Master Plan conclude at the end of July
2008, a final EMP will be prepared and
submitted to Governor Corzine.
What Environmental
Commissions Can Do
Fortunately, environmental commissions don’t have to understand every
nuance of the EMP to see where they
should begin. Regardless of the big,
unresolved policy issues, commissions can
start helping their municipalities to
● Adopt conservation and efficiency
measures that will save taxpayer money
and reduce CO2 production;
● Encourage developers to incorporate
energy efficiency into their plans;
● Demonstrate energy leadership, and
show residents, businesses and institutions that these measures are costeffective and within the reach of each
individual.
Information Sources
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Draft NJ Energy Master Plan, Implementation Strategies and related
information, www.state.nj.us/emp
Status of New Jersey’s EMP,
www.state.nj.us/emp/about/.
ANJEC’s comments on EMP at
www.anjec.org/html/positions.htm.
By Julie Lange Groth, ANJEC Resource Center Director
Tubular Talent
Summit (Union) has taken its antiidling campaign to the airwaves with a
one-minute video Public Service Announcement (PSA) running on YouTube
and the local cable channel. Professional
producer/director Christopher Harrison,
the husband of Amy Cairns Harrison who
serves on the Mayor’s Sustainability Task
Force, volunteered his time, know-how
and equipment, using local actors, a script
and graphics created by Task Force friends.
Chris edited and added opening
animation to the PSA at his New York work
office. Without all the donated services,
the video would have cost about $30,000.
With a local high school student, Chris
produced a second PSA on recycling, using
a flashlight and a month’s worth of
recyclables in a volunteer’s garage. It took
about 90 minutes to set up, an hour to
shoot and 10 minutes to clean up, he says.
“My daughter Claire has brought the
green out in all of us.... We all learn from
our children at some point.” View the
videos at
● www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z5LTKaF1Pw
● www.youtube.com/
watch?v=C4_kbmu3h4M.
Take It to the Bank
Woolwich (Gloucester) residents are
earning rewards for doing the right thing
since the township instituted a new
incentive program with RecycleBank
(www.recyclebank.com), a Philadelphiabased company that has established
similar arrangements with several other
New Jersey communities. Based on the
total weight of their homes’ recyclables,
residents receive coupons redeemable at
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over 100 local and national businesses. In a
year, a household could earn up to $420
worth of coupons just for following the
state’s recycling laws.
Each household places all recycling –
paper, cardboard, plastic, aluminum and
glass – in a single 95-gallon bin with a
unique barcode for each home. A speciallyequipped truck picks up the bins, scans the
barcodes and weighs the contents. Residents
can download their coupons from
RecycleBank’s web site or have them mailed.
Businesses are also able to participate.
After the first six months, Woolwich increased its recycling collection by 61 percent.
Trash tonnage was reduced by 8 percent,
saving the municipality over $63,000, despite a 5 percent increase in collection units.
In addition to the cost savings, the
program helps keep trash out of overtaxed
landfills. According to Environmental
Commission chairman Frank Wagner, "We
have the added benefit of knowing that we
have made a conscious decision to help
lower our ecological footprint."
Power to the People!
The Red Bank (Monmouth) Environmental Commission has been giving away free
compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs to
entice residents to enroll in the New Jersey
Board of Public Utilities’ Clean Power
Choice program, which allows consumers
to specify renewable sources for their
energy needs. This helps meet the state
mandate to have at least 20 percent of
energy usage come from renewable sources
by 2020.
By February 2008, 72 borough households had enrolled, closing in on the
Commission’s goal to sign up at least 106,
or 2 percent of all homes. The Commission
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also gave away over 200 free CFLs to the
first households to pledge to replace at
least five of their incandescent bulbs. New
Jersey’s Clean Power Community Partners
Program (www.njcleanenergy.com) provided most of the free bulbs, with others
purchased with matching donations.
Commission member Boris Kofman
says, “Luckily, more and more people are
becoming aware of global warming and
wishing to do something about it, so we
hope to keep adding enrollments.”
Turning Garbage
into Gold
As part of a comprehensive municipal
waste prevention program, Montclair
(Essex) residents can purchase home
composting bins at reduced cost through
the Township. The most widely sold North
American bin, the recycled plastic Earth
Machine, is available to residents for
around $40, half of the normal $80 cost.
About 5 percent of single- and twofamily homes (nearly 500) now have the
bins. The township’s goal is to double that
rate by the end of 2010.
The town’s Environmental Affairs office
also promotes smart, beneficial yard care
through its annual Compost GiveBack
event, attended last fall by over 200
people, despite poor weather. Residents
can pick up free compost donated by the
company that handles the township’s
curbside yard waste collection. Residents
can also buy their compost bins and learn
how to use them at the event. Regional
environmental groups set up tables with
information on a wide range of related
green gardening topics, from backyard
Township of
Montclair is selling
the Earth Machine
composting bin
at cost to residents
to encourage
recycling.
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habitat and water-wise gardening
to low-impact lawn care and stormwater
management.
Further information is available
at Montclair’s Compost Info “Rotline,”
(973) 509-5721.
Save That Tree!
Environmental Commission member
Janis Hetrick didn’t expect to rescue a
beloved old cherry tree from the blades of
a backhoe when she drove past a new
bank construction site in Egg Harbor
Township (Atlantic). The backhoe operator
apparently did not know the tree was to be
preserved, so Janis literally jumped out of
her car and shouted “STOP!” just as the
tree was about to be leveled.
The tree survived after the bank erected
a construction fence around it, voluntarily
preserved an old cedar tree and planted a
very nice landscaping mix around the
retention basin. The Commission presented the bank with the first township
business Environmental Achievement
Award for exceptional landscaping. The
award now proudly hangs in the bank’s
lobby. Talk about turning sour cherries
into Cherries Jubilee!
Read All About It!
Two great new Environmental Commission newsletters have made their
debut recently.
The Westville (Gloucester) Commission
came up with a simple, one-sided page,
cleverly named What’s Green? The
Westville Environmental Commissions Way
(www2.westville-nj.com/environmentalcommission), mailing out a black and
white version along with the mayor’s
newsletter. Commission members stuffed
the envelopes by hand at the print shop to
save postage and mailing costs.
The first issue includes a helpful article
on green lawns, solicits volunteers to get
involved with the Earth Day Cleanup, and
invites residents who live near Timber
Creek to sign a pledge to keep debris out of
the water.
Commission Chair Joyce Lovell says the
project was a cooperative effort involving
local and regional schools and the Educational Information and Resource Center,
a New Jersey nonprofit serving the education sector.
Union Township (Hunterdon) Environmental Commission issued its inaugural
newsletter this year, combining it with the
annual township offices’ phone directory.
The 20-page information-packed publication covers recycling, local songbird
sightings, recreational trails, a study of
Sidney Brook, the impact of impervious
surfaces, idling, septic management and
articles by the Historical Society, the
Zoning Officer, Fire Department and
Tax Collector.
Volunteers provided the design and
layout, and donations covered the printing and mailing costs. The Commission
also sold advertising with proceeds
benefiting the town’s Open Space Fund.
By bringing together the efforts of so
many, the newsletter conveys a sense of
solidarity and shared purpose.
Back2Tap in Chatham
By drinking tap water using the 1,500
new stainless steel reusable bottles
distributed by the Back2Tap Committee in
May instead of disposable plastic bottles,
Chatham (Morris) residents will save
270,000 gallons of water, 8,000 gallons of
oil and 44 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in
one year.
The Chatham Borough and Chatham
Township (Morris) Environmental
Commissions, the local school district and
Recreation Department are working with
the citizens’ group to reduce the number
of plastic water bottles in the trash by
convincing residents to make the switch.
The committee began recommending
stainless steel over plastic or aluminum
bottles after researching various alternatives, and has raised almost $8,000 selling
stainless steel bottles imprinted with a
paw print of a cougar, the school mascot.
There’s no charge to personalize the
bottles with name and phone number.
Proceeds go to school Parent Teacher
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Chatham Borough
and Township
expect their
Back2Tap program
to save 8,000
gallons of oil and
44 tons of CO2 in
the first year by
getting people to
switch from
bottled water to
reusable steel
bottles.
Organizations to help provide filtered
drinking water systems or fund other
environmental projects.
The program success has inspired the
committee to help roll out the green
fundraiser at schools in other towns. For
more information, contact Committee
Chair Mary Lonergan at (973)701-1814.
Andover
Environmentalist
Honored
Lois J. De Vries, chair of the Andover
Environmental Commission (Sussex),
recently received the Jefferson Medallion
for Public Service, a prestigious recognition, akin to a Nobel Prize for community
service, presented on both the local and
national level.
A panel of judges from The Star-Ledger
of Newark, among the 150 Media Partners
for the Jefferson Awards across the country, selected De Vries from an extensive
group of contenders. This initiative of
newspapers, television and radio stations
heralding local heroes is the nation’s
largest media partnership fostering
volunteerism.
Sam Beard, cofounder of the Jefferson
Awards and President and CEO of the
American Institute for Public Service,
presented the award along with Ed
Selover, Vice President and General
Counsel for PSE&G.
During seven years on the Environmental Commission, De Vries wrote nearly
$50,000 in successful grant applications
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Award to
ANJEC
Andover Environmental Commission Chair
Lois DeVries has won the prestigious
Jefferson Medallion for Public Service. On
the left, Sam Beard, co-founder of the
Jefferson Awards and President and CEO of
the American Institute for Public Service
and on the right Ed Selover, Executive Vicepresident and General Counsel, Public
Service Electric and Gas Company.
that helped develop natural resource and
conservation easement inventories, a buildout capacity analysis, an open space plan
and a hydrogeology report. During that
period the commission instituted a Dark
Skies Initiative, developed a stream
monitoring project, partnered with The
Nature Conservancy to produce a sensitive
areas map, and worked with the state’s
Endangered and Nongame Species Program to create township-specific GIS maps
for the Landscape Project.
Recently Lois has worked with the US
Fish and Wildlife Service to develop a
pilot program establishing habitat restoration projects in detention basins.
In May, Morristown’s
communityearth for a Sustainable
Future (http:communityearth.info)
board member Tina Bologna presented ANJEC with a World of
Possibilities Award. Recognizing
ANJEC as one of the oldest, most
influential environmental organizations in New Jersey, she honored our
regional leadership in environmental sustainability across the state and
noted that few organizations have
had such an impact on the protection
of environmental resources.
Tina remarked that ANJEC has
trained environmental commissioners about municipal land use, natural
resources and how to be effective
advocates for the environment for
over 30 years. Noting that ANJEC’s
work extends to assisting community
planning boards, open space committees, concerned citizens, and
elected officials, she said ANJEC is
also a well-respected advocate for
sound environmental policy at both
the state and regional level, promoting protection of coastal resources,
the unique habitats of the Pine
Barrens, fragile Highlands water
resources, and environmental health
in urban centers.
Additional Information
For more examples of innovative environmental commission activities around the
state, contact the ANJEC Resource Center
by emailing to resourcecenter@anjec.org or
call (973)539-7547.
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Information commissions can duplicate to use in their communities
Enjoy Catching the Rain
Take pleasure in your garden and satisfaction in knowing that
you have helped protect and preserve water in your area.
Rain gardens, or bioretention areas, are
specifically designed to soak up rain or
snow melt water from roofs, driveways or
lawns. They offer an easy and attractive
way for homeowners or businesses to help
reduce stormwater runoff, erosion and
water pollution, by letting water infiltrate
the soils, recharging our groundwater
supplies.
Rain gardens act as basins, dug deep
enough or set below the existing grade so
that they retain rain water and let it slowly
filter into the ground, rather than running
off to storm drains and quickly downstream. The gardens allow about 30 percent
more water to soak in than a lawn would.
The filtering action of the soil improves
water quality. Normally as stormwater
washes over the land it picks up pollutants
like pesticides, fertilizers, sediment, engine
oil and other petrochemicals. The rain
garden slows the water down, giving the
pollutants a chance to settle or be filtered
out, before the water
reaches our groundwater
and/or drinking water
supplies.
An added bonus is that
flowers and shrubs of the
rain gardens can add
beauty to the yard and can offer food
and shelter for birds, butterflies and
beneficial insects.
Planning Important
With a little planning, homeowners,
condominium associations or commercial
and retail centers can install rain gardens
relatively inexpensively, especially if they
do the digging and planting themselves.
To choose a spot, survey your property to
see where water collects and flows after a
heavy rain. It might be an area near a
downspout, and it might be showing signs
of erosion or puddles after it rains.
The area should be flat or moderately
sloped. The garden should be at least 10
feet away from the house to keep water
from running into the basement. Avoid
areas over a septic system.
Be sure there are no underground
utilities in the area. At least three days
before you dig, call New Jersey One Call
Residential bioretention
system in Gloucester
County. From Rutgers
New Jersey Agricultural
Experiment Station.
Courtesy of Rutgers University
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by dialing 811 to find out the location of
buried electric wires and gas mains. The
service will mark the location of any
underground utilities. Check also to see if
you need a permit. Probably this is not
necessary, but your town might require one
if the garden is within the setback line, near
your neighbor’s property or the street.
The garden should
receive full or partial
Rain Garden
sunlight so that its
Placement
plants will grow
successfully. Full sun
will allow for a wide
variety of plants,
although many plants
tolerate some shade.
Digging
Rain gardens are typically 4 to 8 inches
deep. On a slope, more digging will be
needed on the uphill side. Use the removed
soil to build a berm on the downhill side.
The bottom of the garden must be flat and
level so that the water will not puddle up on
one part of the garden. The berm should
also allow overflow
for heavy rains to
divert to a natural
drainage area.
Plants
Use native plants,
as they have adapted
to local conditions
and will not need
Planning
fertilizers and
The size will depend
pesticides. They also
on how much water the
provide food and
garden must handle
shelter for native
and how well the soils
birds and insects.
can absorb it. Measure
Choose a variety of
the size of the area that
plants to have
will drain into it. The
different heights,
Rutgers University & Universtity of Wisconsin Extension Publications
area producing the
textures and bloom
runoff might be a roof, driveway, sidewalk
times. The plants should be able to
or other impervious surface. A rain garden tolerate both wet and dry conditions and
should be able to retain 1.25 inches of rain should be suited to the amount of sun
falling in two hours. So, if your garden
your garden will receive. Mulch your
will receive runoff from a 1,000-squaregarden, water it immediately and continue
foot roof, it should be able to handle100
watering it twice weekly until plants are
cubic feet of water. (1.25 inches equals
established. After that your garden will
0.104 feet, and 1,000 square feet multionly need watering during dry, hot spells.
plied by 0.104 feet equals about 100 cubic
feet.) By this formula a garden that is 10 feet Maintenance
square by 1 foot deep would be able to treat
After the garden is established, it will
most of the annual runoff from this roof. If
need weeding, just like any other garden.
you don’t have that large an area for the
In addition, plants may need trimming or
garden, you will need to dig it deeper, so
mowing, depending on the species.
that it can handle the volume of water
Sediment will probably build up over time
generated by the drainage area.
and will need to be removed.
The site’s type of soils will also affect
how large the garden must be. The soils
Additional Information
must provide good drainage. To check the
● Rain Garden Manual for New Jersey,
drainage, dig a hole 8 inches deep and fill
Native Plant Society of New Jersey,
it with water. After it has drained, fill it
www.npsnj.org/
again and check to see if the water drains
● Rutgers Agricultural Experiment Station
out within a few hours. If not, choose a
www.water.rutgers.edu/Rain_Gardens/
different site or add soil amendments such
Rain_Gardens.htm
as sand or compost to improve infiltration.
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Emission Inventories and Energy Audits
What Every Municipality Should Know
By Alison Deeb, Councilwoman, 4th Ward Morristown (Morris) and
Arthur J. Clarke, Esq., Chair, Morristown Environmental Commission
A summary of inspirations learned by the authors at ANJEC's
Municipal Emissions Inventories and Energy Audits workshop,
hosted by the Woodbridge (Middlesex) Environmental Commission, and their own research and experience.
Emissions Inventories
Over the past several years, many towns
and cities have taken positive steps to help
curtail global warming by adopting
resolutions that endorse the US Conference of Mayors Climate Protection
Agreement. The agreement sets forth a
number of actions to curtail the emissions
of “greenhouse gases” (GHGs) to pre-1990
levels. In addition, in 2007, Governor
Corzine’s signed legislation that calls for
GHG emissions stabilization to 1990 levels
by 2020, a 20 percent reduction, followed
by an 80 percent reduction of emissions
below 2006 levels by 2050.
Although numerous towns have
initiated important steps to reduce GHG
emissions, some are at a loss as to how to
actually achieve these goals. Municipal
officials are concerned that their towns are
moving too slowly to keep up with the
rapidly changing world of GHG regulation. But there is no need for panic.
Municipal officials can rely on a number
of scientific tools and techniques to help
them meet their GHG reduction goals.
Initially, performing a GHG emissions
inventory will help identify and quantify
a municipality’s GHGs. A number of
national and state organizations have
developed inventory methodologies. Most
procedures include user-friendly software
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programs that simplify the otherwise
laborious task. For example, New York City,
a participant in the Cities for Climate
Protection program, used the Clean Air and
Climate Protection software developed by
the National Association of Clean Air
Agencies. It translates data on energy use,
transportation patterns, solid waste disposal,
and other inputs into GHG emissions.
Closer to home, Maplewood (Essex)
used a standardized amount of carbon
dioxide (CO2 ) equivalent per person for
its GHG emissions inventory and then
simply multiplied that amount by the
number of people in the town. But these
numbers can vary. Estimates of how much
CO2 an average American family emits
per year ranges from 20 to 24 tons. One
CO2 ton is enough gas to fill a balloon
roughly 10 yards in diameter.
Municipalities usually perform one of
two types of emission quantification
inventories:
● The total amount of GHG from all
emission sources within the town;
● Emissions under direct control of the
town’s government.
Municipal inventories would include
emissions from
● Buildings: Electricity, natural gas, fuel
oil, coal, and steam consumption from
town-owned buildings and facilities.
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Vehicle Fleet: Gasoline and diesel fuel
used by various municipal vehicles, such
as passenger cars, motorcycles, trucks,
and marine vehicles, as well as privately
operated school buses and vehicles used
for the collection and disposal of solid
waste and recyclables. (Not included is
compressed natural gas [CNG] used in
town vehicles due to lack of data
availability.)
● Streetlights: Electricity use resulting
from the operation of outdoor lighting
such as streetlights, traffic signals,
illuminated pedestrian signs, and parks
and recreation lights.
● Water and Sewer: Electricity, natural gas,
and fuel consumption from water
pollution control plants, wastewater
pumping stations, water pumping
stations, and all other environmental
facilities, including offices.
● Solid Waste: Amount and composition
of waste generated by town employees at
the buildings and facilities operated by
the town.
Based on an emissions inventory,
municipalities can formulate plans, goals
and targets to achieve meaningful reductions. The Mayors’ Committee for a Green
Future (MCGF), a standing committee of
the New Jersey State League of Municipalities and a project of the New Jersey
Sustainable State Institute (NJSSI), assists
municipalities in achieving their GHG
emission reduction goals by providing
research and program support. The MCGF
is creating a Green Future Roadmap with
several provisions:
● a comprehensive suite of direction and
resources tools that municipalities can
use to address sustainability issues;
● tandardized criteria to help towns
evaluate their sustainability efforts in
relation to other state municipalities;
and
● incentives for making progress toward
meeting the sustainability criteria.
The Rutgers Green Building Center, the
Municipal Land Use Center of the College
of New Jersey and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
(NJDEP) are involved in the efforts.
●
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While municipalities could face many
challenges in setting and achieving their
GHG emission goals in the near future, an
emissions inventory is an excellent first
step in identifying where to begin.
Municipal Energy Audits
With energy costs skyrocketing, it
behooves any town or municipality to
make energy management a top priority.
A municipal energy audit is a step in the
right direction.
Typically, a municipal energy audit
isolates mechanical, electrical and plumbing
equipment and energy costs, identifies a
recommended set of energy conservation
measures (ECMs) and projects the operational and cost savings each ECM can
achieve. The calculations of proposed energy
savings are measured in kilowatts, (kW),
kilowatt hours (kWh), therms (units of heat)
and energy and water cost savings.
In 2005, Morristown (Morris) conducted
a $7,500 energy audit that examined nine
public facilities including Town Hall, three
firehouses, two public works facilities, the
Some examples of the systems
evaluated in an energy audit
Existing Equipment
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Lighting
Occupancy sensors
Heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC)
Controls
Pumps, motors, and boilers
Water (i.e. toilets, faucets, shower
heads)
Potential Improvement Measures
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Energy efficient lighting sensors
Variable frequency drives
Energy efficient motors
Direct Digital Controls (DDC)
Renewable energy opportunities
(i.e. solar, geothermal heating and
cooling systems, green roofs
Water conservation methods (i.e.
lowflow toilets, waterless urinals,
faucet aerators, restriced flow
shower heads)
Source: Pete Pirrello, Vice President, Metro Energy Solutions
In a typical energy audit,
the consultant might then
575 Kilotons Annually
provide estimated pricing
for materials and labor,
Non-local
Buildings
calculate maximum utility
emissions
(1/4th)
Electricity
rebates and other financial
(1/3rd)
60K
incentives, and perform a
Our share of Misc.:
life-cycle cost analysis to
Natural
Gas
industrial, retail,
65K
help the munici-pality
commercial, freight
State & Fed. Govt.
determine an order of
Oil 20K
(including military)
190K
priority of each project. A
Vehicles &
detailed engineering/design
Transit
60K
for each measure follows,
Food
Air
along with preparation of
Consumed
Solid Travel
95K
bid specifications.
35K
Waste
50K
New Jersey is finalizing
Consumption
Transportation
guidelines for an incentive
(1/4th)
(1/6th)
program that will cover
approximately 75 percent
Maplewood (Essex) Environmental Commission conducted an emissions
of the cost of conducting a
inventory that revealed about half of local emissions were generated by
municipal energy audit.
heating and electricity for buildings and residents’ consumption of food.
The Board of Public
sewer plant and the town pool. It identified Utilities will certify six companies to
conduct the energy audits.
25 ECMs at an estimated implementation
But municipalities shouldn’t wait to
cost of $1.2M with an average simple
perform an energy audit. The study could
payback of seven years.
cost much less than the estimated annual
An energy audit is typically conducted
savings resulting from recommended
in two phases – the Facility Assessment or
changes, and the sooner those measures are
Audit and the Implementation. The Audit
implemented, the sooner the taxpayers
phase begins with an extensive client
start benefiting.
consultation that establishes scope, objecIn the meantime, there’s no reason for
tives, priorities, roles and responsibilities,
waiting to implement “quick wins” such
timeline, deliverables and communication
as energy efficient lighting and programand feedback mechanisms. For example,
mable thermostats. Results vary by town
when a West Caldwell, Metro Energy
and facility, but based on Morristown’s
Solutions consulting company performs
experience, light-ing replacements can
energy audits, it
yield a simple payback of 1-2 years with
● Collects 12 months of historical data;
total annual savings of thousands of dollars.
● Executes a load data analysis to deterProgrammable thermostats also offer a
mine the amount of energy and water
simple payback of 1-2 years with estimated
used at various times of day, week and
annual savings of hundreds of dollars.
month and the associated costs;
Other measures, such as replacing old
● Conducts site visits to evaluate mechaniboilers
and furnaces before they break
cal, electrical and plumbing equipment
down,
can
also be cost effective, but it’s
and identify energy and water conservabest to plan for such costly capital extion measures; and
penses well in advance.
● Performs a utility incentive analysis to
determine federal, state and utility
Additional Information
company low-cost energy loans, grants,
● Workshop presentations available at
rebates, and similar programs to supplewww.anjec.org/html/
ment energy and water conservation
WorkshopMaterials.htm.
financing measures.
Maplewood Emissions Inventory
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Update on
Artificial Turf
By Julie Lange Groth, ANJEC Resource Center Director
S
ince our autumn 2007 ANJEC Report article, the story on the use of
artificial turf (AT) for athletic fields continues to unfold.
New Investigations Launched
Questions about the safety of artificial
turf fields have led legislators in New
Jersey, New York and Minnesota to
introduce bills to bar installation of any
more fields pending completion of health
and environmental studies.
Last fall in
Newark’s (Essex)
Ironbound, a
synthetic field’s turf
was ripped up and
replaced when high
lead levels were
detected. In April
unsafe lead levels in
artificial turf nylon
fibers caused the
closing of three
additional athletic
fields in Jersey City,
Hoboken (Hudson) and at the College of
New Jersey in Ewing (Mercer).
The discoveries prompted the New Jersey
Department of Health and Senior Services
(NJDHSS) to urge the US Consumer
Product Safety Commission to immediately investigate lead in synthetic turf
products. In the absence of federal guidance, NJDHSS went on to issue interim
recommendations for those who have
installed or plan to install artificial turf
fields, including the suggestion that,
“Children should shower and wash
thoroughly after playing on artificial turf
fields.”
NJDHSS estimates about 150 AT fields
are currently installed in the state, not
including playgrounds and day car facili-
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ties with artificial turf or crumb rubber
surfaces.
New York
In February, the Trust for Public Land
announced it would no longer use crumb
rubber infill made from recycled tires for
the fields it builds at
New York City school
playgrounds. NYC
Public Advocate Betsy
Gotbaum recently
called for an immediate moratorium on
turf installations
until the city completes a study of
possible adverse
health effects.
In April, New York
State’s Department of
Environmental Conservation began an
environmental impact assessment of
ground-up tires used in synthetic turf fields.
Connecticut
In May, Connecticut Attorney General
Richard Blumental committed to a
$200,000 field study on health and
environmental impacts of crumb rubber
used in AT after a research study by
Environment and Human Health, Inc.
(EHHI), a Connecticut-based nonprofit,
challenged previous health risk assessments about the infill. EHHI recommended a moratorium on the installation
of any new fields or playgrounds until
potential exposures and health risks could
be further researched.
Legal challenges
Evesham (Burlington)
In March, a state Superior Court judge
ruled that Evesham Township could not
use open space tax money to fund the
installation of artificial turf on a local
high school’s athletic field or on any land
not owned by the township.
The judge said the law is very specific
about the criteria for use of a municipality’s
dedicated open space tax revenues. He
ruled that an inter-local
services agreement allowing
township recreation
programs to use the school
district’s field did not
constitute an acquisition.
The ruling followed a
lawsuit filed by a citizen’s
group opposing a February
2008 ordinance authorizing
the use of $3.1 million for
the high school field and
another field. The citizen’s group also collected 2,500 signatures on a petition calling
for a public referendum aimed at keeping
AT off the town’s recreational fields.
In June, however, New Jersey’s Assembly
approved a bill to enable municipalities to
circumvent the judge’s ruling. Sponsored
by Democratic Assemblymen Louis
Greenwald, Paul Moriarty and John
Burzichelli, it allows a town to spend open
space funds to develop or maintain land it
doesn’t own for recreation or conservation.
The bill must still be approved by the
Senate and Governor before becoming law.
Bernardsville (Somerset)
Last November, a state Superior Court
judge ruled that Bernardsville’s Board of
Adjustment must review a full site plan for
a proposed artificial turf field at a local
high school after a local preservation
group opposed its potential impact on
their historic neighborhood. The Board
then unanimously voted that the turf
application would intensify the property
use and therefore required a variance.
While the Municipal Land Use Law
typically does not apply to school construction, the judge ruled that the project
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should be considered an “other capital
project” and therefore fell under the
jurisdiction of a land use board.
Edison (Middlesex)
In June, to the dismay of the township’s
mayor, the Edison Board of Education
turned down a $1.5 million Middlesex
County Open Space grant earmarked for a
synthetic turf field at a township high
school – the first time a town has declined
open space funding since
the county’s 1995 program
began. The school board
rejected the funding
because it objected to
giving the county an
option to use the fields “in
perpetuity,” but also partly
because of recent reports
about health hazards from
synthetic fields.
Maplewood (Essex)
Bucking a plan to replace grass with
artificial turf in a Maplewood park, the
EnvironmentalCommission helped to
force a financing plan referendum in
December, which was nullified when the
township committee rescinded the bond
ordinance. As a compromise, a scaled back
plan calling for a 1/3 smaller area of AT
containing no tire rubber is now going
through the petition process.
Abroad
A 2006 report on synthetic turf from the
Swedish Chemicals Inspectorate recommended that, “granulate formed from
recycled tires should not be used when
laying new surfaces of synthetic turf.”
According to a research paper by Delaware
RiverKeeper, “this progressive measure is
being matched by the manufacturers in
Germany, where more and more of the
rubber used in synthetic turf is virgin
rubber.”
Additional Information
●
Contact the ANJEC Resource Center by
emailing resourcecenter@anjec.org or call
(973)539-7547.
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By Kerry Margaret Butch, ANJEC Urban Environment Project Director
A Room Without a View
Blocking Out the Sun and River in Newark’s Ironbound Neighborhood
Takila Dobbins, an organizer for the
Ironbound Community Corporation and a
Newark neighborhood resident went door
to door to speak with the Millard E. Terrell
Homes tenants from a Newark Housing
Authority on the Passaic River. Struck by the
parents’ sentiments,
she noted. “They are
scared to let their
children play outside,
afraid that one will
disappear into a
container unit and
never be spotted
again.”
On the Newark
Housing Authority
land, adjacent to the
Passaic River waterCSL Image
front ironically,
sixteen years ago was a three-acre recreational field. Today it’s full of cargo
containers stacked six or seven high. These
rusty units, sometimes piled higher than
three-story buildings, block the view of the
Passaic River and impede access to the sun.
“The residents would like the container
units to be removed so that they can see
the river and get a breeze,” remarked Ms.
Dobbins. “There are also safety issues. A
lot of little children live here and the
containers attract drug activity and
squatters. That shocked me. People
actually live in the units.” Ms. Dobbins is
working with the tenants’ council to
address the issue with the Board of the
Newark Housing Authority.
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Environmental Justice
“Clearly, this is an issue of environmental justice,” explained Carol Johnston,
coordinator of Special Projects and
Waterfront Project Manager for the
Ironbound Community Corporation.
“Can you imagine a
decision being made
to house container
units on public land
in a more affluent
community? The
answer is no. This
neighborhood is lowincome and historically has housed a
disproportionate
amount of environmental hazards. It is
less than a half mile
from the largest incinerator in New Jersey
and a quarter mile from Diamond Shamrock (Alkali), a federal Superfund site.”
That area has the largest concentration of
dioxin in the world, a known carcinogen
and residual of the manufacture of Agent
Orange for the Vietnam War.
Although it has been decades since the
Newark Housing Authority leased the land
to Palmer Industries for $650 a month, Ms.
Johnston sees hope in the Terrell Homes
tenants’ renewed spirit and a city
administration’s work with community
members to make plans for a waterfront
park come to fruition. The containers sit
on an area that has been identified to be
restored as open space and parkland in the
Joseph G. Minish Passaic River Waterfront
Park plan, a one-mile stretch along the
Passaic River that borders the Ironbound
neighborhood where 50,000 people live.
“In New York City, there are seven and a
half acres of open space per 1000 people.
In Newark there is one-half acre of open
space per 1000 residents,” cited Ms.
Johnston, who points out that the majority
of land needed for the plan is publicly
owned. Currently, the only open space
located in Ironbound is River Bank Park,
once threatened to be taken for a baseball
stadium, and Independence Park. Both the
Newark planning department and the Trust
for Public Land are working with the
Ironbound Community Corporation to
move the plan forward. The planned park
includes walking trails, public plazas, miniparks, athletic fields and active recreation.
Removing Containers
An estimated 27,000 containers units are
part of the Newark landscape. Christina
Montorio, a member of the Coalition for
Healthy Ports and an employee of Change
to Win Labor Federation, sees the issue of
empty container units as a by-product of
the way the New York/ New Jersey port
industry does business. She believes that
restructuring the whole port system will
provide better accountability and address
community quality of life and air quality
issues in cities next to the port, such as
Newark, Elizabeth, Bayonne, Jersey City,
Hoboken and Weehawken.
Montorio notes, “We recognize the
containment units are just one of the
issues.” Placing container units in a
residential neighborhood is “in your face
shameful, particularly when they are
situated next to public housing. All port
adjacent communities are suffering. Trucks
are often parked in neighborhoods, trucks
go in and out of neighborhoods, and the
impact on health is staggering…. In Newark
one in four children has asthma, while the
statewide average is one in twelve,” she
said pointing toward the New Jersey
Environmental Federation’s report, Diesel
Hot Spots: A Snapshot of Newark.
Takila Dobbins has created a documentary film on the issue and is gathering
support from City Council members and
the Newark Housing Authority. The
Ironbound Community Corporation
continues to advocate for the removal of
the containers, and Ms. Dobbins and Ms.
Johnston are willing to put in the time to
make a difference. As for the park, Ms.
Johnston refers to it as “one of those
dreams in progress.”
Additional Information
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Ironbound Community Corporation,
www.ironboundcc.org, (973)589-3353.
New Jersey Environmental Federation’s
Diesel Hot Spot: A Snap Shot of Newark
Report, www.cleanwateraction.org/pdf/
njef/dieselpaperfinal.pdf or call (732) 2808988.
ANJEC’s Directory of
Environmental Consultants
Information on environmental professionals and
businesses operating in New Jersey and surrounding regions. You can search by keyword (including
company name) or service area.
Check out the Directory at www.anjec.org
and click on “Environmental Consultants”
Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
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Highlands Council Adopts Regional Master Plan
Amendments Offered by Environmentalists Largely Defeated
By David Peifer, ANJEC Highlands Project Director
On July 17, 2008, the New Jersey
Highlands Council voted 9-5 to adopt the
Regional Master Plan (RMP), a landmark
document that will guide implementation
of the Highlands Act in the Highlands Region of New Jersey. Eight
votes were required for adoption.
In voting for the RMP, the
Council rejected a series of
amendments offered by
Council members Tim
Dillingham and Tracy
Carluccio, the two environmentalists on the Council.
The amendments sought
to limit new development in
water deficit areas, provide
additional protection to
stream buffers, limit the
amount of nitrate contamination permitted in residential
clusters and elsewhere, and
limit so called “map adjustments.”
After offering several
hours of extensive testimony in support of the
amendments, the environmental community was
disappointed with the results.
The New Jersey Environmental Federation, a statewide
666
environmental organization,
issued a press release
“scorecard” of the day’s
voting available from David Pringle,
dpringle@cleanwater.org.
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The Governor has 30 days to review and
approve the Council’s meeting minutes.
The Highlands Coalition, a group of more
than 30 environmental organizations,
has requested Governor Corzine to
veto the minutes of the meeting
and strengthen the plan. See
www.njhighlandscoalition.org for
further information on the
Coalition’s position.
If the Governor approves
the minutes as filed, the
RMP will begin to function
as a controlling document
during the Conformance
Period. Additionally, the
Council will submit the RMP
to the State Planning Commission (SPC) within 60 days
for Endorsement by the SPC.
This process will ensure that
the RMP will be functionally equivalent to the
State Development and
Redevelopment Plan.
Municipalities in
the Preservation Area are
required to conform
their planning and
zoning to the RMP
within 9-15 months of
its adoption. Municipalities in the Planning Area
may conform voluntarB. PRETZ
ily at any time. Conformance confers important benefits to
municipalities including grant eligibility,
priority for State funding, a “presumption
of validity” for their planning and zoning
ordinances and a legal shield against
lawsuits.
Initial Feasibility Grants in the $15,000
range are available to towns to review
their existing planning and zoning
framework. Thus far, 11 municipalities
have received these grants. Grant funding
is also available for COAH compliance
planning, and TDR Receiving Zone
Feasibility evaluation. (See www.state.nj.
us/njhighlands/ for conformance benefits
and grant information.
The Council has recently posted a
valuable tool for municipalities in the
form of an interactive web-based geographic system (HGIS). HGIS allows
municipalities and landowners to view all
the map data developed in the RMP
process. These data are a valuable tool for
the region’s municipalities, with many
analyses and combinations of geographic
data that might never before have been
prepared for a municipality. They address
important elements of the RMP, including
agricultural resource areas, riparian zones,
forest resource area, water availability and
many others. This information may be
viewed at the Council’s website, under
“Highlands Interactive Map.”
Additional information
The complete RMP, including the amendments, is available on the Council’s
website www.state.nj.us/njhighlands/.
ANJEC’s comments on the Amendments to
the Highlands Regional Master Plan,
www.anjec.org/html/positions.htm.
New Laws on Local
Environmental
Protection
Two New Jersey Legislature laws passed
in June have key effects on local environmental protection.
● An amendment to the Municipal Land
Use Law (A1559) authorizes municipal
planning boards to adopt a sustainability
municipal Master Plan element. The
new optional part of the Master Plan is
“A green buildings and environmental
sustainability plan element, which shall
provide for, encourage, and promote the
efficient use of natural resources;
consider the impact of buildings on the
local, regional and global environment;
ANJEC’s 2008 Environmental
Achievement Awards
To be presented at the 35th Annual New Jersey Environmental Congress
Friday, October 3
Mercer County Community College, West Windsor
DEADLINE:
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
For categories, application form and
additional details go to
www.anjec.org/html/aboutecs.htm, or
call ANJEC at (973) 539-7547.
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allow ecosystems to function naturally;
conserve and reuse water; treat storm water
on-site; and optimize climatic condiditions
through site orientation and design.”
Another law (S 241) passed in June
exempts renewable energy systems from
property taxes. The law covers a wide
variety of electric energy sources as well
as solar thermal and geothermal technologies. It also provides the Commissioner of Environmental Protection to
determine appropriate resource recovery, hydropower or biomass facilities for
electric energy to meet the highest
environmental standards and minimize
any impacts to the environment and
local communities.
Additional Information
●
Bills A 1559 and S 241, available at
www.njleg.state.nj.us
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2008 Governor’s
Environmental
Excellence
Awards
Deadline: prior to
Friday September 19, 2008
For categories, application and
additional information, go to
www.nj.gov/dep/eeawards/index.html or
contact Dean Anderson, NJDEP Office
of the Commissions, (609)292-3885
Sponsored by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Co-sponsored by New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technology
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Water Quality
Management Rules
Adopted
By Abigail Fair, ANJEC Water
Resources Project Director
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) adopted Water
Quality Management Plan Rules, with
amendments, which were published in the
July 7, 2008 New Jersey Register.(www.state.
nj.us/dep/rules/adoptions.html) The rules
establish counties as the Wastewater Management Planning agencies and establish tight
submission deadlines of from nine to twelve
months. To help establish wastewater needs,
the rules require build-out analyses based on
municipal zoning.
In an unusual step, the NJDEP is requiring municipalities to adopt Riparian Buffer
ordinances that are at least as strict as the
Flood Hazard Area Rules. A model riparian
buffer ordinance requires vegetated buffers
of 300 foot on either side of trout production waters and Category One streams. In
addition, they require riparian buffers of
150 foot on either side of
● Trout maintenance streams,
● Stream sections adjacent to acid producing soils, and
● Stream sections adjacent to threatened
and endangered species habitat.
The regulations also require 50 foot buffers
along both sides of all other regulated waters.
Under the Wastewater Management
Rules, the NJDEP is also requiring municipalities to adopt a steep slope ordinance.
The model ordinance prohibits development on slopes of 20 percent or more. Both
model ordinances are available at
www.nj.gov/dep/watershedmgt/wqmps.htm
Annual Meeting and
Election of Board Members
Friday, October 3
Environmental Congress
Mercer County Community College Conference Center, West Windsor
OFFICERS Two year term elections
President: Chris Allyn, chair, Harding (Morris) EC
Vice President Operations: Nelson Dittmar, Jr., chair, Cranford (Union) EC
Secretary: Barbara Vadnais, operator, Muirhood Foods, former vice-chair,
Princeton (Mercer) EC
TRUSTEES Three-year terms
Mercer: Priscilla Hayes, Esq., Executive Director,
Rutgers EcoComplex, Solid Waste Policy Program
Gloucester: Michael Koestler, former Mayor, Harrison Township
Passaic: Marion McClary, Jr., Professor of Biology, Fairleigh Dickinson
University
Ashley Pengitore, Scientist, Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners
ANJEC members can also make additional nominations at the annual meeting.
Save the date!
Don’t
miss it!
ANJEC 35th Annual Environmental Congress
Advance to Green:
Strategies for Sustainable Communities
Friday, October 3, 2008
9 am to 4 pm
The Conference Center at Mercer County College, West Windsor
Keynote speaker: NJDEP Commissioner Lisa Jackson
Featured speaker: David Gershon, author of
Low Carbon Diet: A 30-Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds
Workshop sessions will explore open space and the ratables chase, stormwater
in redeveloped and developed communities, recycling, educating the next generation, green transportation, green building and deconstruction, new
COAH rules, the Energy Master Plan and David Gershon on empowering
your community to go on a low carbon diet
Environmental Achievement Awards
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Warm Thank You to
ANJEC’s Volunteers
ANJEC is very grateful to have more
than 70 people who gave their time freely
in the past year as speakers at our workshops and the annual Environmental
Congress, writers and photographers for
the ANJEC Report.
Dominick Aiello
Steve Balzano
Ana Baptista
Francis J. Banisch III
David Banisch
Richard Bizub
Brian Boden
Thomas Borden, Esq.
Anthony Broccoli, PhD
David Buffington
David L. Burg
Dennis Canavan
Joseph Carpenter
Peter Craig
Christine Danis
Nelson Dittmar, Jr.
Jennifer Duckworth
Donna Drewes
Russell Dronne
Ralph Copleman
Paul Chrystie
Tim Dillingham
Joan G. Ehrenfeld
Patty Elkis
Matt Elliott
Jordan Friedberg
Wilma Frey
Phil Garber
Adam Gault
Rev. Fletcher Harper
Dwight Hiscano
Michael Hogan
Priscilla Hayes, Esq.
Roy Jones
Michele Letter
John Lund
Suzanne McCarthy
Jennifer McColloch
Betsy McDonald
David Moskowitz
Coleen Mahr
Norbert Psuty, Ph.D.
Joan Martin
Joseph Maraziti, Esq.
Joseph Mattle
Bob McCoy
Mary Nikola, Ph.D.
Jane Nogaki
William Potter, Esq.
Leslie Jones Sauer
Elizabeth Semple
Nicky Sheats, Ph.D.
Bill Sheehan
James Sherman, Esq.
Stan Slachetka
Julia Somers
Benjamin Spinelli, Esq.
Eric Stiles
Carter Strickland, Esq.
Eileen Swan
Laura Szwak
John Thonet
Nancy Tindall
Daniel J. Van Abs, Ph.D.
Jeannine Vannais
Peg Van Patton
Lori Vendetti
Patrick Woerner
Adam Zellner
Bettina Zimny
Thanks to ANJEC Volunteer
Steve Carroll, Chatham Township (Morris)
Environmental Commission member,
each week helps update our web site and
find better ways to present information.
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is proud to be a member
of Earth Share of New Jersey
Has Your Company Gone Green?
Through its partnership with Earth Share New
Jersey (ESNJ), ANJEC is currently looking for
employers across the state interested in
expanding their benefits program without
incurring additional expenses.
How can you help?
You can start an ESNJ campaign in your
workplace and provide your employees with the
ability to donate to ANJEC and other environmental organizations directly through payroll
deduction. Billions of dollars annually are
contributed to reputable charities across the
country through these programs and they are so
easy to implement.
Why workplace giving?
Workplace giving just may be the easiest and
most effective way to support ANJEC. As ANJEC
has limited resources, ESNJ increases the
playing field as it functions as our workplace
giving arm. If your employer offers payroll
deduction you can elect to donate a percentage
or a flat dollar amount from each paycheck and
designate that donation to ANJEC. A $25
donation every other week could add up to a
$650 donation to ANJEC by year end.
Why campaign with ANJEC?
ANJEC receives an additional financial award
from ESNJ for each new workplace giving
partner.
Interested?
Please contact Ann Marchioni, ANJEC’s
Development Director and Board Member of
ESNJ at (973)539-7547 today.
There’s just one environment…
and one simple way to care for it.®
What We’re Reading
ANJEC staffers share their picks for worthwhile summer reading
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Review by Steve Carroll, ANJEC volunteer
and Chatham Township
(Morris)
Environmental
Commission
member
Building on
his earlier works,
Pollan’s 2008
book focuses on
developing
healthier diets and
also provides a
thoughtful treatise
on how we should eat in a way sustainable
for the earth and our health. As he notes,
“It’s not possible to separate our bodily
health from the health of the environment
from which we eat....” His maxims such as
“Eat food, mostly plants, not too much,”
and “Don’t eat anything that your greatgreat grandmother would not recognize as
food” are entertaining as well as easy to
follow guides for better health.
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe,
Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Island Press
Review by Steve Carroll, ANJEC volunteer
and Chatham Township (Morris) Environmental Commission member
Homer-Dixon provides a disturbing
analysis of our society. He identifies what
he calls five tectonic stresses beneath our
society: population stress (from differences
in population growth rates between rich
and poor societies), energy stress (from
increasing scarcity of oil), environmental
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stress, climate stress (from global warming) and economic stress (from widening
income gaps between rich and poor
people). He
considers the
greatest danger to
be convergence of
these stresses such
that society has to
face simultaneous
failures on more
fronts than it can
manage. This is an
important book to
read and read again,
although his solutions are too utopian to
give much comfort.
Environmentalism and the Future of
Progressive Politics, Robert C. Paehlke
Review by Dave Peifer, ANJEC Highlands
Project Director
This 19-year-old book deals with some
political and social issues that will be
raised by the coming presidential election.
The need to advance environmentalism as
a political ideology has gained new
urgency over the years, particularly in the
face of “peak oil,” global climate change,
food concerns and disrupted economic
conditions. As the grip of neo-conservatism that began with the Reagan presidency begins to loosen, pursuing and
defining the “environmental agenda”
across traditional political boundaries will
be sorely needed. Paehlke’s book can
provide guidance for anyone concerned
with environmental issues at the local to
national level.
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of
Communities and the Durable Future,
Bill McKibben,
Henry Holt and Company, 2007
Review by Michele Gaynor,
ANJEC Resource Center
This book packs in a lot of eye-opening
information about how US citizens live
and consume in comparison to other
nations, making the case that the United
States has become a nation of hyperindividuals with no sense of community.
It’s an easy read that’s full of powerful
points about the state of our nation,
including our high consumption, lack of
fulfillment, and ever demanding need to
grow and grow no matter what the cost.
Continued, excessive growth eventually
breaks down the community. We don’t
need people anymore because technology
has replaced our need for human contact.
Although the US ranks among the top in
wealth, we are much further down the list
when it comes to happiness and satisfaction. Some of the facts and figures about
our nation will surprise you.
Our
Sincerest
Thanks to
ANJEC’s
2007 Donors
These individuals support our mission to
provide education and resources to local
environmentalists.
$1,000 and more
Chris Allyn
Sandy Batty
Peter H. Craig, VMD
Nelson Dittmar, Jr.
Sally Dudley
Earth Share of New Jersey
Joyce Laudise
Mr. & Mrs. Walter Wright
$100 to $999
Sustainable
Communities
B. PRETZ
ANJEC’s new web page (www.anjec.org/
html/tools_sustainable.htm) offers a
wide range of information and resources to help towns conserve energy,
reduce their carbon footprint, and
ensure a sustainable future.
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Byron A. (Gus) Allen
Stefan Armington
Candace M. Ashmun
Kirk Barrett
Wendy Benchley
Mark W. Biedron
Stewart Carr
Catherine A. M. Cavanaugh
Marguerite Chandler
Theodore Chase
Clean Ocean Action
Mr. & Mrs. Horace K. Corbin, III
William D. Dana, Jr.
Don Daume
Alison A. Deeb
Linda W. DeLap
Robert K. Dobbs
Jill Dodds
Burt T. Doremus, Jr.
Anna Drago
Russell Dronne
Dr. Joan Ehrenfeld
Charles Gordon Engel
Charles A. Evans, Jr.
Joy Farber
Mr. & Mrs. James Ferguson
Jane Galetto
Garden Club of Englewood
Garden Club of Morristown
James G. Gilbert
Oscar & Margaret Gottscho
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Graff
Joy Grafton
Bonita C. Grant
Amy S. Greene Environmental Consultants
Marty & Ellie Gruber
Eleanor Gural
Carol A. Head
Blanche D. Hoffman
Ann Huber
Nan Hunter-Walnut
Cynthia R. Jacobson
Susan Kimball
Merwin E. Kinkade
Joyce Koch
Penny Kopcsik
Blanche Krubner
Janet Larson
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Leman
Cinny MacGonagle
Helen Manogue
Dave Mason
Robert McAllan
Peggy McNeill
Joseph H. Metelski
Mountain Lake Community
Assoc. & Watershed Action
Group
David F. & Mary Moore
Maureen Ogden
Foster S. Osborne, Jr.
Mary Owen
Dr. & Mrs. Grant Van S. Parr
Madeline Pitney
Sandra P. Prior
Renee Resky
Barbara Rich
Samantha Rothman
Dana Sappah
Marilyn Schindler
Pearl Schwartz
James Sherman
Dorothea Stillinger
Jamie Sunyak
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Gary Szelc
Nancy Tindall
Nancy Tischio
Deb & Dave Tomb
Francis H. Tweed
Louise Usechak
Peg Van Patton
Barbara Simpson Vadnais
Alan M. Willemsen
Barbara Burgess Wolfe
Elizabeth W. Wolfe
Nancy Wysocki
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Julie & Fred Akers
Bill Allen
Christine Altomari
Michele Arminio
Adeline Arnold
John Ashton
Joanne Atlas
Rosalie L. Ballantine
Jeannette G. Bamford
Eileen Banyra
Sue Barbuto
Marshall P. Bartlett
Marilyn Beard
Michele Bellinger
Karen Buchanan
Frank V. Budney
John Capozucca
Kathleen Caren
Doris L. Carey
Stephen Carroll
Jonathan Cloud
Dr. Richard Colby
Patricia Connolly
Carter Craft
Ray Cywinski
Sally Czaja
Anita Daniel
Daniel Dattilio
Margaret Davey
Chester W. Dawson
Amy Decker
Ariane Delafosse
Susan Elbin
Abigail H. Fair
Lee Farnham
Winnie Fatton
Tom Figlio
John Flynn
Wilma E. Frey
Julie C. Gandy
Gwenn Gilmore
Marian Glenn
Norma Goetz
Minna Greenberg
A. Roger Greenway
Barbara Greer
Gary Grubb
Ellen Gulbinsky
Roger Gutzwiller
Mervyn V. T. Haines, Jr.
Martha Hall
Mary Ann L. Hart
Priscilla E. Hayes
Paul Hernandez
Highlands Coalition
Margot Hilson
Pamela Hirsch
Basil Hone
Joy A. Horwitz-Fram
Michael Hunninghake
Karen Iorio
Arlene Johnson
Joan Johnson
Skip Jonas
John Kappler
David Kitts
Betsy Kohn
Laurel Kornfeld
Kay Lane Leaird
Lou Lanzerotti
Theodore Largman
Martha Lieblich
Peter Liebowitz
Anne Lightburn
Sarah Dean Link
Bill Little
Philip Lobo
Melonie Marano
Joseph J. Maraziti, Jr., Esq.
Jonathan Maslow
Muriel Mathez
Cathy McKee
Courtenay Mercer
Daniel Morash
Brian Morrell
Sandra Morrissey
Pamela Mount
Patrick Mulligan
Janet Narayan
Charles Newcomb
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Thanks to
ANJEC’s Donors
Continued
Kevin O’Brien
Isobel Olcott
John Olson
Estelle Perry
Richard Pfeffer
Richard J. Pollard
Vilma Pombo
Douglas Powell
Junius L. Powell, Jr.
Jim Rokosny
Leon Rosenson
Susan E. Saltus
Robert Sandberg
Brian Scanlan
Betsy Schnorr
Bette Schultz & Paul
Payton
Harry Schwab
Gerard Shimonaski
Roxane C. Shinn
James A. Shissias
Jon Shure
Sandy and Luke Siegel
Karen Smith
Paul Smith
Thomas Spang
Marie Springer
Walter Stochel, Jr.
Chris Sturm
Richard J. Sullivan
Susie Swayne
Robert Szpila
Serkan Talip
Bob Tallon
Terri Tallon-Hammill
Steve Taylor
Alice Tempel
John J. Tomaine
Dr. Robert Tucker
Betsy Thomas Uhlman
Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Uhrig
Lori Volpe
Barbara A. Walsh
Herbert G. Wegner
Tom Wells
Johanna Wissinger
Kim Yousey
Joseph T. Zalescik
In Kind Donations
Graphic design and ad
creation by Joan Snider,
Master Design Studio, Inc.
Database modeling by Stan
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A Special Thanks to Whole Foods Markets
ANJEC thanks the Edgewater (Bergen), Madison (Morris), Montclair (Essex),
Millburn (Essex), Ridgewood (Bergen) and West Orange (Essex) Whole Foods
Markets for making ANJEC the beneficiary of their Five Percent Day. Additional
thanks to
● Members shopping that day who contributed to the earnings; and
● Environmental Commissions from Millburn and Montclair (Essex), and
Leonia, and Emerson (Bergen) who set up informational display tables.
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