Calling Patrick Farm friends and foes
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- June
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Should the owners of Patrick Farm be required by the town to scale back their development plan and provide a park for the town?
That was the suggestion of one resident at a Town Board session this week. The meeting was held to decide what environmental issues would be reviewed as part of Scenic Development’s plan to build nearly 500 single-family homes, townhouses and rentals on the 200 acres off route 202 and 306.
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ramapo doesn't need another park. we just bought 50 acres down the street for an equestrain center and the town's existing parks are under utilized.
the plan to build on patrick farm will generate a lot of taxes and will not bring any more adult student housing to the community. this is a win-win for us!
The wetlands and pond on the Patrick Farm property are over the last viable aquifer in Ramapo and that is why United Water is installing its last and a very large pumping station opposite this property. We need this water desperately and we need it uncontaminated.
The partial and illegal destruction of this wetland by the present owners (the Lebovits family) has already created serious flooding downstream after heavy rains. Further destruction will lead to more serious flooding and threaten the viability of the water table that underlies this land.
The village of Kaser where the Lebovits family resides is built on a wetland. As a result we believe the builders of these multifamily properties have had to install illegal sump pumps that send water into the sanitary sewer system. We do not believe the Lebovits family should be allowed to create the same kinds of problems on the Patrick Farm property that exist in Kaser.
Furthermore, it will be years at best before Ramapo finally corrects the illegal sewer connections that have resulted in huge sewer overflows into the Mahwah River after heavy rains.
These illegal connections are going to cost Ramapo homeowners tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars for sewer expansion.
The loss of ground water is forcing United Water to build a huge untested plant to filter Hudson River water that will cost us at least ten times as much we are currently paying.
Who is this "ramaporealist" who tells lies and hides behind a phoney name?
Robert I. Rhodes, Chairman, Preserve Ramapo
Robert I. Rhodes, Chairman, Preserve Ramapo