November 3, 2010 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 5 Allendale Council introduces ordinance to save wetlands by John Koster The Allendale Council has introduced an ordinance that would permit the Passaic River Valley Coalition to purchase and preserve about 20 acres of wetlands near Powell Road with matching grant totaling $321,500 obtained from New Jersey Green Acres and Bergen County Open Space funds. Allendale had acquired the land some time ago through tax condemnation. The land, while under the technical ownership of the Passaic River Valley Coalition, will remain permanently natural and undeveloped because it is recognized wetlands. The ordinance is scheduled for its adoption vote on Nov. 8, when the Allendale Council will hold a specially scheduled meeting to avoid conflicts with the observation of Veterans Day on Nov. 11. Councilwoman Elizabeth White and Mayor Vince Barra also told residents of Knollwood Road that their street would be the first street repaved this year, possibly as early as this week, and that the engineer had designed the repaving in such a way as to reduce the flow of runoff onto residential properties during torrential rains. “We are reconstructing the roads,” White said. “We are fixing the cul-de-sac. The water will be kept in the street. The street will be improved so that it will tilt a little to the high side rather than the low side.” Mayor Barra added, “We’ve spent an awful lot of time and, if I may say so, an awful lot of money engineering the street. It should help everybody on the street. It should get the water off the street.” Knollton Road, the council members added, would be the first of the nine Allendale streets repaved this autumn because of the acknowledged water problem to during heavy rains. Resident Bernadette Laurisani had attended the meeting to speak on behalf of the entire street, and especially on behalf of former council member David Duffy, who attended the meeting but did not speak. “A lot of us have the same issues,” she said. “I think it is only a matter of time until we are faced with what (Duffy) is. We have lost eight inches of our dirt.” At previous meetings, Duffy showed photographs in which heavy rains and their aftermath had turned his retaining wall into a waterfall and part of his landscaped property into a semblance of a rice paddy. Barra previously cited an ordinance that Duffy had voted on when he was a council member. That ordinance bans Allendale from providing curbing to private residences at borough cost when roads are repaved. Duffy had advocated Belgian block curbs as opposed to contoured asphalt, and when he was told that residents had to provide their own curbing from now on due to economic constraints he urged the to council reconsider in the case of Knolltown Road, where his house is merely the most impacted of a number of residences. Fell House scares up some fun On two spooky nights, the Saddle River Youth Theatre presented a ‘Ghost Tour’ of the historic John Fell House. Tour groups traveled by lantern light as their storyteller/guide brought to life stories of ghosts and legends of New Jersey. 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