TRENTON
-- Attorney General Anne Milgram and Department
of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner
Lisa P. Jackson announced today that the
State has obtained a court order directing
the operators of a waste management facility
in Monmouth County to stop burying construction
and demolition materials on their property,
and to clean up an illegal landfill created
by the practice.
Acting on a motion filed by Division of
Law attorneys, Superior Court Judge Thomas
Cavanagh last week issued an order enforcing
a DEP directive requiring several defendants
-- Mazza and Sons, Inc., Borough Property
LLC, and Dominick and James Mazza individually
-- to cease all illegal waste burial activity
at their recycling/solid waste facility
and transfer station in Tinton Falls.
The
order also requires the defendants to submit
a plan to clean up what has developed into
a 15-to-20-acre illegal dump spanning two
properties owned by the Mazzas. The illegal
landfill contains such buried construction
and demolition materials as waste asphalt,
carpet, metals, wood, wallboard and other
shredded or processed construction and demolition
waste.
In
the wake of Judge Cavanagh’s ruling,
the defendants applied to the Appellate
Division for a stay of the order, but Division
of Law attorneys successfully opposed the
application. As a result, the Mazzas have
30 days from the date of the court order
(April 23) in which to submit a plan to
DEP for remediation of the illegal landfill
site.
Deputy
Attorneys General Masha Rozman and Gary
Wolf of the Division of Law’s Environmental
Enforcement Section handled the matter on
behalf of the State.
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