September 29, 2010 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • Page 5
Mahwah
Officials agree to abandon Winters Pond dredging
by Frank J. McMahon The Mahwah Council’s plan to have the Bergen County Mosquito Commission dredge Winters Pond has been abandoned as a result of a joint agreement between the township and the mosquito commission. The township council was assured that the dredging of Winters Pond would begin soon following a meeting with Bergen County officials in late July. The council was further advised at that time that the Bergen County Department of Public Works had no issues with the project, and that the head of the BCDPW was 100 percent committed to mobilizing the project. On Sept. 10, Mayor Richard Martel and other township officials met with the Bergen County engineer and members of the BCDPW and came to the agreement that the plan would not go forward because the mosquito commission could not make the commitment the two-year project would require. “The county is very much interested in helping us with the stream clearance,” said Township Administrator Brian Campion, “but not the commitment required for this twoyear project.” Campion said the township is looking at other alternatives, but meanwhile, the township will use funds in its open space trust fund to restore the pond to the condition that existed before the dredging project began. The project started in June of 2009, when the mosquito commission brought heavy equipment to the pond site on East Ramapo Avenue, opposite the Old Station Museum. That equipment was removed and the project halted in July 2009, when the Orange and Rockland Electric Company realized the dredging equipment might interfere with its transmission lines, which are about 40 feet above the pond’s water level. The electric utility stopped the work until a plan could be prepared and approved. Mayor Richard Martel explained at the time that Orange and Rockland was concerned the dredging equipment would touch the wires and short them out or cause an electrical arc from the wires to the equipment. The mosquito commission then agreed to make modifications to its plan to avoid using the longer reach equipment to dredge the center of the pond. Instead, smaller machines were to be used in the area of the transmission wires, and the longer reach machines would be used around the (continued on page 14)
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