Verona Settles With DEP Over Wastewater Provisions
Township Council settled with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection over litigation dating back to 2007.
The Verona Township Council announced at its Tuesday night meeting it had settled a lawsuit with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) involving the township’s wastewater treatment plant on the Peckman River. The NJDEP imposed certain requirements in December of 2007 for the plant, but the township felt some of the regulations imposed by the NJDEP did not apply to the township. According to the resolution passed Tuesday, litigation was brought forth “to contest certain provisions of its New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit as arbitrary, capricious, unreasonable and without technical basis...” “We try to make sure that the requirements placed upon Verona are appropriate,” said Verona's Attorney …
