FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – The former Lone Pine Landfill on Burke Road in Freehold Township could eventually become the site of a solar energy facility.
During a meeting on June 28, Township Committee members adopted an ordinance that will implement the Lone Pine Landfill redevelopment plan. The ordinance rezones the property that is the site of a former contaminated landfill from rural environmental to the Lone Pine Landfill redevelopment area.
Burke Road is off Elton-Adelphia Road (Route 524).
According to the ordinance, the Lone Pine Landfill redevelopment plan seeks to permit a solar energy facility to be constructed on the site, while also allowing existing landfill maintenance and associated remediation activities to occur unimpeded.
The Lone Pine Landfill began operation in 1959 and was operated by the now-defunct Lone Pine Corporation until it was closed in 1979 by an…
Former landfill in Freehold Township could be site for solar energy facility
