Thursday, November 15, 2012
Officials say it may take weeks before complete treatment of waste water resumes at PVSC
Hurricane Sandy dealt a heavy blow to the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission plant in Newark, but the facility has largely been able to continue treating effluent pumped into the region’s waterways, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection said Thursday. But federal officials also said a key indicator of the waterways’ cleanliness was still above acceptable levels, prompting a call for people to continue avoiding contact with the waters of Newark Bay and the lower Passaic and Hackensack rivers. The PVSC serves 1.4 million customers, including in Bergen and Essex counties. Its plant, the state’s largest consumer of electricity, experienced unprecedented flooding when the waters of the nearby Passaic River surged …
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Order in place as repairs are made at storm-damaged treatment facility in Newark
- NEWS
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Gov. Chris Christie is asking customers served by the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission (PVSC) to limit water use as repairs are made to the agency’s treatment facility in Newark, which was damaged by flooding and power outages during Hurricane Sandy. The agency serves 1.4 million customers in several North Jersey towns, including Belleville, Bloomfield, Cedar Grove, Fair Lawn, Franklin Lakes, Glen Rock, Hasbrouck Heights, Montclair, Newark, North Caldwell, Nutley, Ridgewood, Saddle Brook, South Orange, West Orange, Woodland Park and Wood-Ridge. “We are asking residents and businesses served by the PVSC to heed the Governor’s Executive Order for mandatory water use restrictions, and to be even more diligent in conserving water to help …
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
PVSC Payments to City Fall Short, Consultants Say
- GOVERNMENT
- Paul Milo
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Two consultants yesterday told the Newark Municipal Council that the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission has underpaid the city about half a million dollars a year for at least the last several years. The consultants, Arnold Adjepong of Sankofa Public Works in Newark and Frank J. Mangravite of Public Works Management in Morris Plains, prepared a lengthy report regarding the amount of the utility’s so-called “pilot,” or payment in lieu of taxes. Public facilities, like the PVSC plant at Wilson and Doremus avenues in the industrial East Ward, generally are exempt from property taxes, but smaller payments are made to the city government as compensation. The 163-acre facility along the Passaic River treats sewage from 48 North Jersey …
Chris Len
5:14 pm on Sunday, November 18, 2012
The headline and first paragraph of this article are wildly misleading. Secondary treatment is required by law. With primary treatment, to the extent that you can call what PVSC is doing right now is primary treatment, PVSC is simply discharging millions of gallons of sewage mixed with bleach directly into the harbor. This is legally and environmentally insufficient as reflected by the water … more ›