August 11, 2010 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • Page 5
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The Borough of Midland Park has received permission from the NJ Department of Environmental Protection to connect 61 homes in the Glen Avenue area to Ridgewood’s sanitary sewer system. The NJDEP approval is a major component of the borough’s application for a low-interest loan from the NJ Infrastructure Financial Trust, the program designated to administer federal stimulus funds.. If the application is ultimately approved, the borough stands to receive an interest-free loan for 50 percent of the cost of the project, according to Borough Administrator Michelle Dugan. When the borough first applied for the program two years ago - at which time it did not make the cut-off point - 75 percent of the loan would have been interest-free.
Local sewer project gets crucial DEP approval
The borough plans to connect the 61 homes in Miedama Place/Fairview Avenue/Glen Avenue to Ridgewood via a 175-ft. gravity main at a cost of $607,000. At present the flow from the homes goes via a pump station and force main to the NWBCUA in Waldwick. The rest of the borough’s 2,959 sewer connections flow into the NWBCUA via gravity. The 15-year-old pump station at the corner of Glen and Erie avenues has been experiencing system failures, and the force main has had three significant breaks over the past decade, according to borough officials. During the recent storm, Dugan said, the pump station lost power for two days, necessitating a truck standing by in case of a back up at a significant cost to the borough.
Woman, 21, struck and killed by train
A Glen Rock woman was struck and killed by a commuter train in Ramsey last week. Christiana Lee, 21, was struck by a New Jersey Transit commuter train when she reportedly walked around a crossing gate, which was in the down position and flashing to indicate the approach of a train, and stepped onto the tracks. The incident, which occurred at 7:41 a.m., was still under investigation at press time. Eyewitnesses said Lee was walking with her head down, possibly using a cell phone, and did not look up as the train approached. Lee, who was described as an avid runner, was a former member of the Glen Rock High School Cross Country Team. She was a pianist and was a former member of the Glen Rock Middle School Band. A 2007 honors graduate of Glen Rock High School, Lee was attending SUNY at Binghamton. Lee was a supporter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in memory of her friend Zachary Toskovich.
“Thankfully, we have had no sewer line breaks since we put in the original application,” Dugan said. “When ultimately we hook up to Ridgewood and gravity takes over, all those headaches will disappear.” The DEP review determined that the increased flow from the connection will have little or no adverse impact on environmental critical areas, such as wetlands, parks, 100-year floodplains, endangered species habitats, cultural resources, etc. The additional wastewater is so minimal that Ridgewood will not need a change in its DEP permits. The additional sanitary flow from Midland Park is expected to be 18,300 gallons per day; Ridgewood discharges 2.5 million gallons per day into its treatment facility in Glen Rock. The project has the approval of the Ridgewood Council and the Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority, and bonding has been in place for almost a year. Town officials determined a number of years ago that connecting to the Ridgewood sewer main would be more economical than upgrading the existing main and replacing the pump station, which has a useful life of five years or less.
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