Recently IAA set up shop in an abandoned mining pit in Barnegat Township off West Bay Avenue and Route 72. Reports by local residents about hundreds of cars arriving by tow trucks to the site alerted the N.J. Pinelands Commission to an illegal use of the area, which is in the Pinelands National Reserve forest management area – the most sensitive and most regulated part of the 1-million-acre Pinelands.
The site is being used as a holding facility for the hundreds of cars damaged by Superstorm Sandy, a use that officials contend violates the Pinelands Management Act.
The Pinelands Commission has sent two letters informing the landowners – Barnegat Holdings LLC and KJ&J Associates, 1468 and 1467 West Bay Ave. in Barnegat – that they must immediately desist and remove the cars.
The fear is that leaking oil and gas may damage the Pinelands aquifer under the porous, sandy soil.
http://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com/p/pinelands-commission-to-close-barnegat-car-dump-site/933125
The site is being used as a holding facility for the hundreds of cars damaged by Superstorm Sandy, a use that officials contend violates the Pinelands Management Act.
The Pinelands Commission has sent two letters informing the landowners – Barnegat Holdings LLC and KJ&J Associates, 1468 and 1467 West Bay Ave. in Barnegat – that they must immediately desist and remove the cars.
The fear is that leaking oil and gas may damage the Pinelands aquifer under the porous, sandy soil.
http://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com/p/pinelands-commission-to-close-barnegat-car-dump-site/933125