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Sewage Dumping is Not Cool, Says IHG of Crowne Plaza Secaucus

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 2 Harmon Plaza [map], Secaucus, NJ, United States, 07094
September 10, 2009 at 12:18 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

Remember last week when it came out that the Crowne Plaza Secaucus was charged with dumping sewage waste into the New Jersey Meadowlands. Yeah, we were trying to forget about it ourselves but Intercontinental Hotel Group has sent us an official statement about the yucky situation.

IHG wanted to reiterate that the hotel is a franchised property that is independently owned and operated. However, just because IHG does not own the hotel, doesn't mean they don't care about the un-environmentally friendly practices that go on there.

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The Crowne Plaza Secaucus Not Helping The Dirty Jersey Stereotypes

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 2 Harmon Plaza [map], Secaucus, NJ, United States, 07094
September 3, 2009 at 9:46 AM | by juliana | 0 Comments

We were born and raised in the Garden State and it's always been understood that Secaucus just smells bad. Imagine bringing your boyfriend home to meet your family and a few minutes after you leave Newark Airport, he's assaulted by a pungent stench in the air. Nervously, you tell him: "Oh that's just Secaucus. It always smells like that. Out where we live, it doesn't smell at all." Then you continue to blame Secaucus for any other bad smells he encounters in New Jersey.

But it's true. Secaucus has always smelled bad, due to the landfills in the area and decades of environmental abuse that the marshlands have suffered. Fortunately, in recent years there's been a large environmental rescue effort going on here to save the marshlands from being just a nasty dumping ground. So when a hotel is accused of pumping sewage into the area's Hackensack River, it's pretty shocking--even for Jersey.

The Crowne Plaza Secaucus has been charged by the New Jersey state attorney general with just that--dumping wastewater contaminated with sewage into the Hackensack River, a flagrant violation of the New Jersey Water Pollution Control Act. The Star-Ledger reports:

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