January 9, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • Page 23 Slamfest champs The Ramsey Sixers fifth grade basketball team placed first in the Wayne PAL Slamfest Tournament, defeating Mahwah 3429. Pictured are coaches Mike Gaffney and Pat Featherstone and players Brooks Thompson, Ben Bibergal, Sean Featherstone, Jack MacLeod, Tommy Gaffney, Kyle Sutcliffe, Steven Turk, Brett Sutcliffe, Michael Sancilio, and Doug Saalfrank. (continued from page 5) bidder had to present a certified cashier’s check for 10 percent of the purchase price at the time of the auction. In addition, a resolution passed by the township council in September pointed out that the successful bidder must pay the township’s cost of publication of the legal advertisements for the public sale and an $800 fee for preparation of legal documents. Campion advised Gassib that the sale was subject to the approval of the township council at its Jan. 10 public meeting. Gassib advised Villadom TIMES that, in accordance with a provision of his contract with the township, he intends to have an environmental study of the property conducted within the next 60 days to confirm that there are no environmental issues on the site. Gassib said that, once the contract is signed, he intends to build two single family homes on the two lots. The tank field on the site was built sometime after 1912, when artesian wells were drilled in the Mahwah Road area. The artesian wells and the reservoir and tank served the township for many years starting in the early 1900s, when the Cragmere Water Company was founded and the Cragmere section of the township was being developed, according to the book “From Pioneer Settlement to Suburb: A History of Mahwah New Jersey, 1700-1976.” The water company was sold to Albert Winter in 1925. He transferred the deed to the Mahwah Water Company in 1931, and the system was integrated into the township’s water system in 1950. The tank field was put out of service in the 1970s, when a tank was put in on nearby East Slope Road. Bidder