Jersey City Receives Brownfields Assessment Grants

(Washington, D.C.)- Today, Congressman Sires praised the announcement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of two awards to Jersey City Redevelopment Agency. The funding was awarded through EPA’s Brownfields Program, which helps communities assess, clean up, redevelop, and reuse contaminated properties, ranging from former manufacturing, processing, or transportation facilities to dumps and gas stations.

“Too often, brownfields are left to plague communities as uninhabitable property,” said Congressman Sires. “I am pleased that Jersey City will now be able to utilize this funding to transform these sites from neglected eyesores to civic spaces.”

In particular, Jersey City will receive two cleanup grants totaling $400,000. Funds will go towards environmental site assessments, preparing cleanup plans, and community outreach activities.