Click on the image to the right to be taken to the online map showing Phillipsburg overburdened community status and will have more detail regarding the colors on the map.
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The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection classifies the area of the Flats of Phillipsburg as an overburdened community.
As you can see by the online map, which is fully available by clicking on the image to the right, the Flats is an overburdened area.
The map key specifies that the Flats are considered to be an overburdened community due to the concentraton of minorities and because it is low income with a high poverty rate.
Why the Flats of phillipsburg being an overburdened community is significant
Click on image to download a copy of the September 7, 2022 New Jersey State Planning Commission - Warehouse Siting Guidelines
The September 7, 2022 New Jersey State Planning Commission - Warehouse Siting Guidelines (NJSP-WSG Report) provides infomation on where warehouses make sense, and where warehouse should not be built. The graphic at the top of this page, "Overburdened Coumminities - Air quality and health impact considerations", is a snapshot of part of the NJSP-WSG Report.
The report also specifies that warehouses over 150,000 square feet should not be built in or next to overburdened communities. The New Jersey Department Of Environmental Protection has designated the area of the Flats of Phillipsburg as being an overburdened community. All of the four currently approved site plans for warehouses on the Peron Howard Street property are over twice the square footage of 150,000 square feet. Hence, no warehouse over 150,000 square feet should be approved for this property. Additionally, since there are currently trucks travelling through the area of the Flats for McWayne Ductile, and other pollution from McWayne Ductile, no warehouse should be built on the Peron Howard Street property.
Read more: September 7, 2022 New Jersey State Planning Commission - Warehouse Siting Guidelines