Court Rejects Flood Permit for NJ’s Largest Warehouse Project

New Jersey environmental regulators must re-evaluate a key permit for the state’s largest warehouse project because they failed to properly evaluate the project’s safeguards against flooding.

The state Department of Environmental Protection must reassess whether plans to build culverts instead of bridges considered the feasibility of bridges at the 650-acre site, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division ruled Friday.

The ruling puts another hurdle in front of a massive project that has raised the ire of environmental protection groups, anxious about runoff from the massive development. Now the developer, Bridge Point West Windsor LLC, must show that ...