Ridgewood, NJ Environmental Rules: Erosion Control (2026)

Section 190-67 of the Village of Ridgewood Code lists what a site plan or subdivision application must contain before the Village will deem it complete. Subsection N applies to any development that is not a "major development" under § 190-83 but still adds a new building, an addition, a pool, or at least 200 square feet of impervious surface; it requires three paper copies and one electronic PDF of a stormwater management application and plan. Item N(13) of that list is the Village's erosion-control requirement: the applicant must submit a soil erosion and sediment control plan that includes, at minimum, silt fencing and/or salt hay barriers around the disturbed area.

The code also fixes a physical construction standard, a stabilized construction access drive fifty feet long and ten feet wide of clean crushed stone, required on every site that is also obtaining a soil-moving permit. Where the work will disturb more than 5,000 square feet, the applicant must obtain certification from the Bergen County Soil Conservation District before the plan can be approved. For larger "major development" projects, § 190-83C separately directs that erosion control be designed to the minimum standards of the state Soil Erosion and Sediment Control Act and its implementing rules, but the Village's own submission checklist in § 190-67 is what a typical single-family addition, pool installation or driveway expansion in Ridgewood has to satisfy before a permit issues.