Cramer Hill Waterfront Park

New jersey

Category: Infrastructure, Plan

Year: 2021

Funding: $22 million from the Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund (HDSRF) at NJDEP, $4 million in public funds during 2006-2014 to remediate the landfill, and $48 million from natural resource damage settlement monies from polluters in the NJDEP’s Office of Natural Resource Restoration to construct the park.

BACKGROUND

Cramer Hill Waterfront Park in Camden, New Jersey, was constructed on a former landfill and hazardous waste site. At the former waste site, located on the Delaware River, municipal solid waste and soil contamination, including pesticides and PCBs, were exposed on the surface of the unstable, steep slopes and interacting with the tides. The 62 acres of landfill have been transformed into the Cramer Hill Waterfront Park, provides landfill closure, natural resource restoration, recreational activities, and shoreline protection (over 3,000 feet of shoreline was regraded and stabilized).

Image Credit: New Jersey Deparment of Environmental Protection
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