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• 6/18/2009 12:27 AM bob wrote:
  With emergent chemical contamination leaching into our water environment the only effective tool to protect the health and surface water resources is to preserve open space. The waters are full of endocrine disruptors, trihalomethane, PCB,s,new emergent chemicals non of which are removed by modern wastewater treatment. The ending of continued development with all it's nasty chemical storm water run off can never be stopped by storm water regulations as they exist today. Department of Environmental Protection will always short change environmental regulation because of political influence. The only tool that exists to protect the health and welfare of the human and wild environment is preserving open space. Every extra square foot asphalted over in NJ is another nail in our and our children's coffins. The cost to upgrade wastewater treatment plants and storm water control basins to just keep these new contaminates at levels needed to garentee health would be on the order of tens of billions of dollars just in new jersey. Open space is much cheaper with the side benefit of carbon sequestering,aquifer recharging, oxygen generation,wildlife habitat continuation, and tax reduction because of saved farms and forests.
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