Jersey City Council to vote on $494,450 no-bid contract to maintain Skyway Park's Superfund landfill site

The Jersey City Council is set to vote Wednesday, Oct. 7, on a $494,450 contract to keep maintaining the former PJP Landfill on Routes 1&9, the capped Superfund site long promised as Skyway Park. The money is for maintenance, not for building the park.

Resolution 26-643, item 10.28 on the Oct. 7 agenda, would award Colliers Engineering & Design, Inc. of Holmdel a professional services agreement “for a total contract amount not to exceed” $494,450. The contract would run for 12 months from signing and covers operations and maintenance “for the remainder of 2026 through the first quarter of 2027.”

The resolution says the contract “is awarded without competitive bidding as a professional services agreement under the Local Public Contracts Law.”

Colliers’ June 2, 2026 proposal names the property “Former PJP Landfill a.k.a. Jersey City Skyway Park a.k.a. Marion Greenway Park” at 400 Sip Avenue. The resolution says the city took the site “through condemnation proceedings on June 18, 2010.” It also says the site is on the federal Superfund National Priorities List and that the U.S. EPA and NJDEP “require the City to continue retaining an environmental engineering firm” to carry out the maintenance plan.

The fee schedule breaks down as follows. Monthly inspections and recovery of dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL), a heavy liquid contaminant, are $63,000. Landscaping is $65,000 and air monitoring is $45,000. Groundwater, surface water, and sediment sampling is $165,000. Coordination is $16,500, annual reporting is $42,000, and Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP) services are $35,000. An air permit modification is $18,000. That makes a $449,500 subtotal, plus a 10% contingency of $44,950. The proposal says the crew expects to collect about “one (1) 55-gallon drum” of DNAPL-impacted water a year.

The resolution’s vote record is still blank. Skyway Park appears nowhere else in the 1,197-page packet, so no construction contract, design award, or park funding is up on Oct. 7.

Source: City of Jersey City Council meeting packet, Oct. 7, 2026 (Res. 26-643).

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Hudson TV asks: Should Jersey City keep paying to maintain the PJP Landfill as-is, or should the Council demand a construction date for Skyway Park before it renews this contract again?