Water Restrictions Update and Street Signs Disappearing – August 24
Dear Resident,
I hope your summer has been enjoyable and relaxing. I’d like to update you on two separate issues – water conservation status and stolen street signs.
I would like to thank residents for their overall compliance with Stage II water restrictions. It has eased the operational difficulties of the overall water system to a degree but weekends are still challenging the limits of system capacity. I know that some of you have commented to me about stricter enforcement and I have indicated that we have been strengthening enforcement. As an update, enforcement has included warnings to hundreds of violators and 16 summonses have been issued to repeat violators. One recommendation that I have received from a resident is that we should mandate the use of rain sensors; we currently mandate their use on newly installed sprinkler systems but not existing. Use of rain sensors is a good conservation method and we do recommend their use.
We cannot predict with certainty when we will be able to ease restrictions but the public will be informed through the usual channels when we do. We encourage residents to check our website at water.ridgewoodnj.net for the most up-to-date information.
Once again street signs are disappearing from local streets. The occurrence of this seems to increase right before colleges begin. At this moment we have 37 missing signs! It used to be that just the signs were stolen but now we are also seeing a new tendency to also uproot the pole. Clearly from a taxpayer perspective this is costly; potentially even more important is the impact it may have on our timeliness to respond to medical and other emergencies if a public safety worker is not totally familiar with our streets. I think you will agree with me that this is totally unacceptable. This is a criminal offense and if we find anyone in possession of Ridgewood street signs we will prosecute them. From now through September 15th, we will have an amnesty program where we will provide an opportunity to anyone who is currently in possession of Ridgewood signs to return them to the Police at Village Hall without facing criminal charges. I appreciate your help in getting this issue resolved.
Have a great rest of your summer…….
Best,
Roberta Sonenfeld
Village Manager
201-670-5500, ext. 203
First of all, I find it appalling that Ridgewood has restrictions wh ile no one else does. Clearly, you are doing something wrong. Secondly, your enforcement is a joke. One of my neighbors runs his sprinkler when ever he wants. it was running yesterday – a Monday. He never followed the odd even and continues to water on the third day of the week.
When I mentioned it to him, thinking he was unaware, he just said he did not care and had yet to be caught so why should he follow the rules. Why, indeed?
This town is sign crazy..redundant signs announcing a traffic light 500 yards ahead…etc
These over signages are a high cost item and a blight,..real signs like PED CROSSINGS speed limits etc ARE CERTAINLY IMPORTANT, less signs might mean more attention to those that make sense, the town shud take one down if they want to out a new one up.LOOK AT THE driveway OVERSIGNAGE on Oak at the burgher drive-IN..CONNECTIONS No doubt
It’s a joke nobody does shit, cars parked overnight every where cops don’t do shit
ENOUGH of the warnings!
grow a set of BALLS and start writing the summons!