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).