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  • Cleanup cost spurs closing of gun range

    06/27/2002 6:39:58 AM PDT · by technochick99 · 10 replies · 16+ views
    North Jersey News ^ | 6/20/02 | LAURA FASBACH
    FORT LEE - The Borough Council has shut down the Police Department's shooting range after learning it will cost $100,000 to clean up lead-contaminated soil at the Palisade Terrace training facility. Noise pollution generated from the weekly firing of guns over the past several decades made matters worse, said Mayor Jack Alter, who lives in The Plaza - a 171-unit co-op building that is adjacent to the range. "When the range was built, it was there by itself," Alter said of the outdoor range, which opened about 50 years ago. "Now it's surrounded by three large buildings, and I happen...