Although endangered species of birds have visited the site, Triple 5 will only have to purchase mitigation credits to enhance wetlands elsewhere if it gets permits to fill 5. 41 acres of wetlands in the Meadowlands, according to the final supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS recently released.
But mitigation credits purchased could help fund cleanup underway at a wetlands tract adjacent to the Kane Tract [formerly Empire Tract]. Regardless, environmentalists are in disagreement over whether the developer should fill the wetlands on the 21.75 acre Radio Tower Site in order to construct an amusement park and water park—key components of the stalled American Dream Meadowlands development.
The much-hyped project remains in limbo as funding has yet to be secured and state and federal agencies are reviewing key portions of the project's environmental impacts. The Army Corp. of Engineers and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP have yet to issue permits.
To pay for the destruction of wetlands, in the EIS, Triple 5 offers to purchase 5. 41 credits at Evergreen Mitigation Bank in Carlstadt in order to restore wetlands elsewhere. Evergreen Environmental, LLC Vice President Mark Renna said the company is already restoring a 51-acre site near the Kane site and that Triple 5's credits would go towards paying for those improvements, as the two parties have entered into a written agreement.
«We restore the wetlands by restoring the tides to the site, which were cut off due to berms and tidegates,» Renna said about the Carlstadt site south of the NJ Turnpike next to the Transco facility. Previous phases of wetlands construction on more acreage were done in 1991 and 2001. The third phase should be done by July.
«We start planting at the end of this week,» Renna said.
The mitigation credit system works as follows: «If we prove that we've successfully restored wetlands, we get credits, and then sell those credits to anyone who has permit approvals,» Renna explained.
The wetlands set to be filled by Triple 5, once permits are in place, are mostly barren, officials say. Regardless, the EIS, which is on the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority's (NJSEA web site, shows threatened bird species such as the yellow crowned night heron have visited the site.
«They're just flying by,» said Hackensack Riverkeeper Bill Sheehan. «Those are typical birds we see every day in the Meadowlands during the course of the season. They're flying overhead, see an open area, go down, realize there's nothing to keep them there, and so they move on. [The site] provides some open space, but no real habitat value. Directly up river there's some very good habitat, where they sit at the edge of a creek and catch fish. «
Sheehan noted that 22 yellow crowned night herons were sitting near Harmon Cove in Secaucus. Additionally, Lyndhurst, North Arlington, Carlstadt and Kearny have foraging habitat for such birds, and on the Kane tract [formerly Empire] and at adjacent Marsh Resources tract [the latter when it's cleaned up].
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