Former Brick Township Superfund Site Gets Remake as Solar Power Farm Panels Provide Energy to Government Building, Local Parks

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 (New York, N.Y. – July 23, 2015) Brick Township received the first-ever U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 Excellence in Site Reuse Award today for its use of 24,000 solar panels at a Superfund Site. 

The award was given to recognize Brick Township’s reuse of a former landfill site to create a solar panel array that supplies electricity to the township’s government buildings and community parks. The installation of solar panels began in June 2013 and the solar array became operational in 2014. It generates about 7,400 megawatt-hours of energy per year.