Comment EI-16649
Received or sent (printed as 4/2/2009)
Please authorize an EIS before abandonment causes severe adverse effects to Jersey City historic districts, landmarks, neighborhoods, and families. Abandonment will lead directly to demolition, which in turn will adversely affect our air quality, increase the noise, cause vibrations, introduce heavy truck traffic through fragile historic districts, cause damage to buildings on two sides for one-half mile, affect the health of my neighbors, cause flooding (no half-mile of fill to absorb stormwater in flood plain), worsen our water quality (increased burden on combined sewers; release of CSOs into Hudson Estuary), release contaminants, destroy natural habitats of wildlife, including migratory birds and monarch butterflies, and much local species, affect the ecosystem (part of habitat corridor joining Hudson to Hackensack), cause cultural loss for Holy Rosary historic festival and Italian community, cause loss of grade-separated transportation structure, ideal for urban area’s heavy traffic, introduce loss of light rail linking Secaucus to waterfront and loss of light freight opportunities.
Submitted by: Heidi Gutierrez · Jersey City, NJ
The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.
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