Comment EI-16776
Received or sent (printed as 4/4/2009)
STB should authorize a full environmental study of the Harsimus Branch, so decisionmakers have the best information available to them. Abandonement will lead to demolition of the structure. This will cause the following negative effects: air quality, dust, noise, vibrations, heavy truck traffic through fragile historic districts, damage to buildings on two sides for one-half mile, removal of a cultural resources, water quality (increased burden on combined sewers; release of CSOs into Hudson Estuary), release of contaminants, habitat destruction, wildlife (migratory birds and monarch butterflies and much local species), ecosystem (part of habitat corridor joining Hudson to Hackensack), cultural loss for Holy Rosary historic festival and Italian community, loss of light rail linking Secaucus to waterfront
Submitted by: Deirdre O'Dea Garrahan · 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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