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Brownfield sites in Essex County, New Jersey
EPA lists 63 brownfield sites in Essex County. Grant recipients report them. 1 carry EPA's ready-for-reuse flag.
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The sites
Each row is a site name and city, as EPA holds them. Where several sites share a name, the count shows how many.
| Site | City | Sites | EPA flags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Steel Drum | Newark | 1 | None |
| Arkansas Chemical | Newark | 1 | None |
| Badger Avenue Sites | Newark | 1 | None |
| Bergen Street | Newark | 1 | Cleanup |
| Bessemer Processing | Newark | 1 | None |
| Central Steel Drum/Texaco | Newark | 1 | None |
| City Of Newark, Badger Avenue Sites-Anti Hydro Company | Newark | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| City Of Newark, Badger Avenue Sites-Gundy Brothers | Newark | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| City Of Newark, Badger Avenue Sites-Rubel Ice Corps | Newark | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Clinton Avenue | Newark | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Compass Dodge Auto Body Shop | Orange | 1 | None |
| Dupont/Pitt Consol | Newark | 1 | None |
| Firestone Auto Service Facility | Orange Township | 1 | None |
| Former ARCO Gasoline Station | Orange Township | 1 | None |
| Former Dry Cleaner | Orange Township | 1 | None |
| Former Fresco Silver | Maplewood | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Former machine shop at Jays Auto Body location | Orange Township | 1 | None |
| Former Peppermint Lounge | Orange Township | 1 | None |
| Former Poultry Market | Orange Township | 1 | None |
| Former Wood & Coal Yard | Orange Township | 1 | None |
| General Color | Newark | 1 | None |
| General Electric Co | Newark | 1 | None |
| Healy Muspyg | Newark | 1 | None |
| International Metallurgic Svcs | Newark | 1 | None |
| International Metallurgical Services IMS Site | Newark | 1 | Cleanup |
| Jays Freeway Collision - Former Residence | Orange Township | 1 | None |
| Jays Freeway Collision Auto Body Shop | Orange Township | 1 | None |
| Kinney Street | Newark | 1 | None |
| Lafayette Street School Yard | Newark | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Lionetti Oil | Newark | 1 | None |
| MAAS AND WALDSTEIN | Newark | 1 | Assessment |
| Mahdi Getty | Newark | 1 | Assessment |
| Newark Airport Limo | Newark | 1 | None |
| Northern Nj Oil | Newark | 1 | None |
| NSC Plating | Newark | 1 | Assessment, Cleanup |
| Otillio Landfill | Newark | 1 | None |
| Q Petroleum | Newark | 1 | Multipurpose grant |
| Red Raven Rubber | Newark | 1 | None |
| Royal Recovery | Newark | 1 | None |
| Rutledge Avenue property | East Orange | 1 | None |
| Scientific Chemical Processing | Newark | 1 | None |
| Seton Leather | Newark | 1 | Multipurpose grant |
| South Orange Avenue | Newark | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Stacor | Newark | 1 | Cleanup |
| Synfax | Newark | 1 | Assessment, Cleanup |
| Tuscan Rd | Maplewood | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Urban League of Essex County | Newark | 1 | Ready for reuse |
| Vacant Land (Former Retail/Commercial Properties) | Orange Township | 1 | None |
| White Chemical | Newark | 1 | None |
14 more sites have an address or parcel number as the EPA name. We count them but don't show the name.
To see each site in Essex County on a map, use the Cleanups in My Community map, on EPA's site.
EPA flags
| EPA flag | Sites |
|---|---|
| Ready for reuse | 1 |
| Assessment | 8 |
| Cleanup | 9 |
| Targeted assessment | 10 |
| State or tribal program | 0 |
| Multipurpose grant | 3 |
| Area-wide planning | 0 |
A site can carry more than one flag. The grant flags show which kinds of EPA brownfield funding a site is listed under.
What this data holds
- Acreage isn't in EPA's national data, so we don't show site sizes.
- We hold no flood data for these sites.
- We show the city and county, not street addresses.
- Grant recipients report these sites to EPA. A flag is EPA's record, not a site visit.
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US EPA data, as of 18 Oct 2026, reported by grant recipients. Not endorsed by EPA. Not legal or environmental advice; confirm with the state or EPA region.