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Ridgewood facing DEP fine over discharges into Hohokus Brook
Monday, November 11, 2013 Last updated: Monday November 11, 2013, 6:53 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
The Record
RIDGEWOOD — The state Department of Environmental Protection wants to fine the village $25,000 for polluting Hohokus Brook for years.
Village Engineer Chris Rutishauser told the council last week that a DEP inspector found violations back in May. Muddy water from Graydon Pool, Rutishauser said, was discharged into the brook — something he said the village has done for years.
Rutishauser said the village not only faced a fine, but also orders to immediately connect all of the pool’s discharge pipes into the village’s sanitary sewer system.
The DEP said that the village’s aquatic permit “doesn’t permit discharges to the brook,” Rutishauser said. “The brook is trout-stocked, and so the state is taking a strict view on any discharge entering that body of water.”
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the d e p is looking for money. thats funny graydon and brook have the same water,
This has been going on for decades why is the DEP suddenly concerned.
In the former days, Graydon water had some chlorine and killed fish in the Brook…………… they were fined about $25,000 at that time.
Oh well, nothing has change much.
Run off of ground fertilizer and other chemicals can still degrade water to the Brook.
But, that’s a separate course of training.
BFD. That brook is fed by the sewage plant of the Northwest bergen utilities authority in Waldwick (behind upper ridgewood tennis club)
If you ever age a fish out of the brook or even waded in it your head needs to be examined.
Funny the DEP is worried about sediment being dumped into the brook when there is a sewage treatment plant a mile or so up the river. Another money grab by our Gov’t at work.
Great! And Valley Hospital wants to pump 300,000 gallons of water per day into the brook while they build their monstrosity!