Controversial utility poles to be installed
Saturday, December 7, 2013
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
The Record
RIDGEWOOD — Crews from Public Service Electric and Gas will return to Ridgewood next weekend, despite months of objections from village officials and residents.
Work will resume to install new utility poles on Hope Street and Spring Avenue on Dec. 14 and Dec. 15. The work is scheduled to commence at 8 a.m. and continue through 5 p.m. on each day.
More poles will then be installed Dec. 28 and Dec. 29 in front of Ridgewood High School, as part of PSE&G’s efforts to connect substations in Fair Lawn and Paramus.
The work will resume less than a month after the state’s Board of Public Utilities denied a request from the village, seeking the continuation of a moratorium on the pole installations.
The board’s decision cleared the way for the project to continue; work has been on hold since the summer, when residential opposition first began.
Residents of Hope Street and Spring Avenue in July complained to village officials, saying the poles — which, at 65 feet tall, soar above the neighborhood’s treetops — would diminish property values and pose serious health and safety considerations.
Representatives from PSE&G met with the village on Wednesday morning, to offer up a timeline on when the project would continue.
On Monday, poles will be installed on Maple Avenue.
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Very interesting that PSEG is in a big rush to replace these poles.
There is a pole cracked in half, that is about to fall over at the corner of N.Monroe and Valley View.
What is the PSEG response to numerous calls by neighbors?
They put a rope around the pole and a cone.
No shit. Someone go take a picture. Its a friggin joke.
They do not care about Ridgewood and will let this pole fall down which carries major circuits from north Monroe to the heights.
For a new thread:
New York Times article about charitable giving talks about uncharitable nonprofit hospitals.
“Nonprofit hospitals are among the largest recipients of charitable donations. Yet their activities are often indistinguishable from those of for-profit hospitals. Both receive compensation for the services they provide. No law requires nonprofit hospitals to provide charity care and, in fact, many nonprofit hospitals provide less charity care than their for-profit counterparts.”
Charge the cost of this stupid ligation to the “pole street” gang idiots of the Village and Spring Ave.
Correct, the town had to know it would never win but it used municipal funds to fight pseg. When and if the planning board, and council denies the valley proposal will the town spend money to fight if valley appeals?
Aronsohn bought votes with your budgeted money. Lol
first of all you cant fight PSEG , sorry their needs out weigh and 2nd your stupid mayor pissed them off during sandy trying to grand stand this was a non starter 3rd Aronsohn makes a big deal about this to protect his friends , but he will let Valley pave over the east side of town to get campaign contributions … welcome to hudson county …suckers
A lot of Ridgewood residents drank his kool aid and voted for him and his other Amargo’s. Now they have become disillusion.
PSE&G cut their deal years ago and don’t need anyone’s permission to put these poles up. OK, some residents raised objections, the Mayor paid some lip service and there was a meeting or two. In the end, however, PSE&G never needed our permission to put their poles up.
Now consider Valley Hospital and the developers that want to build their apartments. All they need is an amendment to our Master Plan which our Planning Board and Council seem very willing to grant. Once the Master Plan is changed and Valley wants to go to 200 feet or the developers want to build 1,000 unit apartments, there won’t be any hearings or public comment because they won’t need anyone’s permission.
Mrs. Hauck are you paying attention? Be careful what you wish for.
I have no opinion on this mayor other than he did a good job during Sandy by showing the media that PSEG is full of shit and did a LOUSY job in Ridgewood. Of course none of their lineman live here, so they don’t care. My friends in the towns where these guys live had power back right away, such as Lodi, Rochelle park etc.
I suggest Ridgewood tax the shit out of the utility poles. The town can do and SHOULD. Tax the poles that do not benefit those on a street 100x the value of those that service the locals. Then see what happens
So the town should tax the pole and pse&g will past along to the customers and the town will spend it on new field bathroom for the horse farm.
Yes let them pass along the cost to all ratepayers, specifically those that benefit from those power lines. Does PSEG, as a monopoly, really need to piss away ratepayers’s money on TV ads when there is no other choice? Do they need to piss away money on sponsoring TV programs? its a friggin joke how they waste money