From Club& Resort Business:
The golf course project coincided with several environmental projects. The state and federal governments want to restore wetlands along the Hackensack River (which runs down the western edge of Jersey City and Lincoln Park), and hoped to do environmental remediation on a former unofficial dump. The golf course project became tied in with the cleanup, and often worked side by side, sometimes even sharing some of the same resources. Some of the muck dug up from the wetlands became useful as fill for the golf course—though the course needed a lot more clean fill once the debris was removed, the Reporter reported.
The junk included everything from auto parts of old refrigerators. And asked if workers ever found the remains of former labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, rumored to be buried in a landfill near the Pulaski Skyway, Guerra laughed. “No, but we did find some bones. These turned out to be an animal’s, not human,” the Reporter reported.
Delayed by a number of factors, not least Super Storm Sandy in late 2012, the course got a number of lucky breaks that will likely allow it to open by early summer 2015. Located in Lincoln Park West, the course is being constructed on approximately 60 acres of underutilized land. Started in 2010, the project was originally slated to take 18 to 24 months to complete, the Reporter reported.
The Lincoln Park Wetlands Restoration Project along the proposed new course’s south border was significantly impacted by tidal flooding associated with Sandy. So was the proposed capping of a former landfill, the Reporter reported.
The project was to have been completed in 2012. After Sandy flooded the golf course location and the nearby environmental mitigation site, the HCIA decided to increase the height of the golf course to avoid flooding from future storms. So far, more than 1 million cubic yards of soil have been delivered to the golf course site, the Reporter reported.
Along the riverside of the golf course is a public walkway that connects the main part of Lincoln Park, and will eventually when the permanent clubhouse is constructed, continue along the shore of the Hackensack River going north, the Reporter reported.