New Jerseys Environment

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New Jerseys Environment

• Tristan Gillespie
• tgillespie_at_njlegalink.com

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"It  isn't pollution that's harming the
environment. It's the impurities in  our air and
water that are doing it." --Dan Quayle  "We've
 got to pause and ask ourselves How much clean
air do we need ?"--Lee  Iacocca
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Raritan River Floyd 199918.8 impervious
increase 1986-1995.
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Delaware River flood April 2005 New
Hope/Lambertville bridge
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1986-1995 Smart Growth Study

• Each day in New Jersey urban growth rate
  equivalent to
• Adding 9 football fields impervious surface
• Losing
• 20 football fields of farmland,
• 9 football fields of forest
• 6 football fields of wetlands.
• If development continues at this rate and if New
  Jersey successfully preserves a million acres of
  open space, the remaining available land would be
  developed in about 40 years.

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What 210 million per year buys us
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Drinking Water
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Kiddie Kollege, Franklinville, NJ 4/06Accutherm,
Inc. 1984 to 1994
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Cancer Alley, NJ?

• We probably just have a better reporting and
  diagnostic system here. So the cancer rate is not
  significantly higher than most states.
• Association between industrial pollution and
  cancer has not been that strong when compared to
  cigarette smoking.
• How does New Jersey compare with other states in
  its incidence of cancer and other serious
  diseases?
• According to the Centers for Disease Control in
  Atlanta, New Jersey ranks 12th among the 50
  states in the deaths per 100,000 from coronary
  heart disease, stroke, diabetes, chronic
  obstructive pulmonary disease, cirrhosis and
  cancer of the lung, breast, cervix and
  colo-rectal cancer.

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Passaic River Video
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• Tristan Gillespie
• Scarinci Hollenbeck, LLC
• 1100 Valley Brook Avenue
• P.O. Box 790
• Lyndhurst, NJ 07071-0790
• 201-806-3397
• tgillespie_at_njlegalink.com

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Flooding in the Raritan River during Hurricane
Floyd in 1999

• Watershed had expanded its impervious surface by
  2,723 acres (an increase of 18.8 ) between 1986
  and 1995.
• 11 inches of precipitation fell in parts of the
  basin
• Currently, the New Jersey landscape is covered
  with 458,610 acres of impervious surface or 9.2
  of the states total

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• Environmental trends in New Jersey
• Flooding Rivers
• Myths
• Human impacts
• Smart growth
• Westmont Station
• Kiddie Kollege
• Historical moments affecting New Jersey's
  environment
• Passaic River case study

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