The Christie Administration has awarded Perth Amboy $7.1 million in grants toward a project to convert a former scrap yard into a green space that will provide public access to the Raritan River and help improve water quality, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin announced today.
The Perth Amboy project will remediate the six-acre brownfield site off 2nd Street and construct ecological habitats, living shoreline and green infrastructure to improve water quality in the river and provide recreational open space to the community.
Money from Natural Resource Damages settlements secured by the DEP is funding the $4.6 million Perth Amboy project grant. The city has also received $2.5 million from the DEP’s Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund.
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