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Help to the potential warehouse from being built on the Peron Howard Street Property in downtown Phillipsburg. We will be circulating the petition throughout the town. If you want to sign the petition and have not yet signed it, please send us an email at
The Consequences of a Warehouse on the Peron Howard Street Property:
- Heavy tractor trailer truck traffic (Potentially 200 trucks per day, 350 cars per day, as pointed out by Councilman Kennedy a truck trip is worth five car trips, so this means at least the equivalent of 985 vehicle trips per day to the warehouse) https://www.tapinto.net/towns/phillipsburg/sections/government/articles/reorganized-phillipsburg-land-use-board-approves-revamped-howard-street-warehouse-plan
- Toxic diesel fumes from the warehouse (Diesel fumes are known to cause lung problems and cause cancer. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/diesel-exhaust-and-cancer.html
- Research has shown that those who live in polluted areas suffer from lower IQs. https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/air-pollution-linked-huge-reduction-intelligence
- Noise from tractor trailers driving through the neighborhoods(s) (Problems related to consistent ruck noise include stress related illnes, high blood pressure, speech interference, hearing loss, sleep disruption, and lost productivity )
- Warehouses hurt property values due to truck noise, toxic diesel fumes and truck traffic. If a warehouse is built on the Peron Howard Street Property, expect home values to plunge in the Flats and nearby areas. Nobody wants to live next to a warehouse.
- If it is not stopped, the warehouse will be built where there was supposed to be residential area called Riverview at Delaware Station. The warehouse will be next to the Delaware River, which is a protected natural resource. If a warehouse is built on the Peron Howard Street property there is extreme danger of polluted runoff entering the Delaware River.
- If a warehose is built on the Peron Howard Street Property, this will sandwich the Residential area of the Flats between two highly toxic industries. Toxic diesel fumes from the Peron Howard Street warehouse would be on the south of the Flats, and toxic emissions (lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, chromium) from McWayne Ductile Plant are on the north. The Flats is already an overburdened community with toxic emissions, and the Peron Howard Street Warehouse would compound the problem for the community.