Cleanup effort underway at former industrial site.A comprehensive cleanup effort is underway at the former GAF GAF Global Assessment of Functioning GAF German Air Force GAF General Aniline & Film GAF Gender AIDS Forum (South Africa) GAF Ghana Armed Forces GAF Get A Freelancer (freelance services website) Corp. site in South Bound Brook Bound Brook, borough (1990 pop. 9,487), Somerset co., N central N.J., on the Raritan River; settled 1681, inc. 1891. Largely residential, it produces chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and dyes. , N.J., furthering a multi-tiered plan to help revitalize the Borough's downtown. The cleanup, to be completed over the next six months, will pave the way for the redevelopment of the 10.5-acre brownfield site adjacent to the Delaware and Raritan Canal Delaware and Raritan Canal (dĕl`əwâr, –wər; râr`ĭtən), abandoned canal, 45 mi (72 km) long, between Bordentown and New Brunswick, N.J., connecting the Delaware and the Raritan rivers; opened in 1834. into 152 townhomes and more than 20,000 square feet of street-level retail space with apartments above. The Matzel and Mumford Organization of Hazlet was selected redeveloper of the property and subsequently retained ENTACT, an industry-leading environmental consulting Environmental consulting is often a form of compliance consulting, in which the consultant ensures that the client maintains an appropriate measure of compliance with environmental regulations. and remediation company, to perform the cleanup of the site, where asphalt and asbestos roofing shingles shingles: see herpes zoster. shingles or herpes zoster Acute viral skin and nerve infection. Groups of small blisters appear along certain nerve segments, most often on the back, sometimes after a dull ache at the site; pain becomes were manufactured until 1983. "The GAF property has stood for years as an unsightly remnant of the borough's industrial past," notes Roger Mumford, President of Matzel and Mumford, a K. Hovnanian Company. "We're delighted to be working alongside South Bound Brook's municipal officials in transforming this blight on the borough into an attractive, well-conceived mixed-use development Mixed-use development refers to the practice of allowing more than one type of use in a building or set of buildings. In planning zone terms, this can mean some combination of residential, commercial, industrial, office, institutional, or other land uses. that will spur the rebirth of the downtown area. It will also allow residents near-complete access to the canal for the first time in nearly a century." ENTACT is currently removing asbestos from the site which will continue through the month of June, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. company officials. In addition, demolition of the site's existing vacant buildings--roughly 250,000 square-feet of structures and foundations--will begin shortly and be carried out through the balance of the summer. Soil remediation will commence in late summer, while the construction of 1,000 linear feet of bio-engineered retaining wall on the Canal banks will begin in early fall. The GAF property has housed various manufacturing operations since the 1880s, including a lumber mill and storage facility for Washington's Army during the 1778-79 Second Middlebrook Encampment. Additional operations on the site included the Standard Paint Co. and Ruberoid Co, which was purchased by GAF. |
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