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This picture was sent to me by Donald Sullivan, a Tappan resident who is organizing opposition to a proposed Orange & Rockland substation on Oak Tree Road. Sullivan and other residents are meeting on a regular basis to plan their protest and are speaking up at town meetings. They’ve also put up signs like this:
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A group of residents will meet tonight in Tappan to organize a fight against Orange and Rockland’s plans for a new substation in their neighborhood. O&R wants to build the facility on a wooded lot on Oak Tree Road, which residents say is too close to their homes and to wetlands.
The meeting takes place at 7:30 p.m. at the Tappan firehouse at 123 Washington Street.
For more information on the project, read Plan for Tappan power station riles residents.
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Orange & Rockland plans to visit Blauvelt homeowner Maureen O’Neill today, but this time the visit will be welcome.
O’Neill was one of many residents who protested when O&R cut down trees in her backyard as part of a tree removal program meant to prevent power outages. Residents complained that more trees were cut that necessary and that O&R’s hired crews left a mess of stumps and debris behind.
O&R reached out to O’Neill after hearing her concerns and agreed to replace the lost trees with what they call compatible species, which are basically trees that won’t grow too high. An O&R arborist will visit O’Neill today and walk though the backyard to go over the plans for replanting.
“Fair is fair,” O’Neill said yesterday. “They’re trying to do the right thing.”
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Maureen O’Neill didn’t consider herself an environmentalist and kept out of public affairs until about a month ago, when a group of trees were cut in her backyard. Since then she’s been one of the key residents who have railed against Orange and Rockland Utilities’ tree removal program.
It’s been that kind of issue. The tree cutting program is one of those hot-button topics that comes along once in a while and really rivets a community and gets people to organize, write letters and call the newspaper. I’ve been getting calls from residents for the past several weeks.
Case in point: Last night 100 people filled a room at Orangetown Town Hall trying to get their voices heard at a community forum about the tree cutting. The crowd was so big it spilled out into the hall. Here is the related story.
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