Ridgewood
September 8,2015
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Recent events once again point to critical weakness in the water supply of the Village of Ridgewood and surrounding towns serviced by Ridgewood Water company .
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of obeying these restrictions – this is a public safety issue – our firefighters need to have the necessary water and water pressure to be able to fight fires and we also need to maintain reserves for household use.
As you are aware we have ratcheted up enforcement over the last several weeks issuing over 50 summonses and hundreds of warnings. This has had some impact but unfortunately we need to take this further – so, I have taken the additional step of appointing more Village employees who will have the authority to issue summonses in order to achieve a higher rate of compliance.”Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld
Back in July Ridgewood Water assured residents ,Ridgewood Water would not be impacted by the proposal to amend the village’s master plan to allow high-density housing, but the village’s need for open space would be exacerbated, experts told the Planning Board at a meeting July 15. https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood-experts-weigh-in-on-housing-proposals-1.1053299?page=all
According to David Scheibner, Ridgewood Water’s business director, said the developments, proposed for the Central Business District (CBD) would not strain the village’s water supply.https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood-experts-weigh-in-on-housing-proposals-1.1053299?page=all
Sadly they will. The biggest use of water is irrigation and the apartments will have NO GREEN SPACE. Which should be a problem itself consider we are already lacking in green space…
Wat too many units per acre, thanks to the three stooges cave to developers.
It just makes sense that adding more people will strain our limited resources.
Sorry but the secondary impact to these restrictions is that the water rates will go up because they will claim that they did not sell enough water because of their own restrictions. 9:30 I do agree with you on the biggest use is irrigation but Ridgewood Water has reached the tipping point with suppling waters to their customers and with the addition of more apartments ( Whatever that number) will surely have and impact on already antiqued and strained system . We also have to consider what is being done as far as development in other towns that Ridgewood Water supplies. The employees of Ridgewood Water are being told to walk the party line and do not rock the boat. We will never know the true impact of these developments because it will be hidden in future upgrades to the water system. ( Bigger water bills and more restrictions) just to satisfy some council members egos and repay those that supported them.