Tainted soil at a proposed preschool site in Paterson prompts a messy legal battle
Source: https://www.northjersey.com/, July 27, 2022
By: Joe Malinconico
The Rev. William Bishop, a retired clergyman, faces a $25,000 fine because of contamination on the property where he wanted to open a preschool, a site used as a gas station decades ago.
That pending fine is entangled in a convoluted lawsuit Bishop filed against the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and William Morrissey III of Cedar Grove, the man who owned the property for about a decade from the 1980s to 1990s. Read more.