Searching for the truth in Upper Saddle River
Following the water issues that recently plagued Pleasant Brook news has filtered through the ether that Toll Brothers has been issued a Stop Work Order. Again. But in typical Upper Saddle River Borough Hall fashion with complete lack of transparency there is no information about this anywhere. Nothing to the residents, nothing on the town…
In the month of ghosts, spirits, Halloween and spectral goings on Toll Brothers have once again left residents stunned by unleashing white water into Pleasant Brook. Sadly, and shockingly, the long history of brown water being released into the Pleasant Brook continues. For over 2+ years stormwater runoff, pumping, flooding and numerous other issues have…
Could Upper Saddle River Brown be the Pantone Color of the Year? While you were distracted with the Super Bowl, The Academy Awards, Valentines Day and numerous other distractions of the quiet winter months you may have missed what is still going on. Toll Brothers Orchard Ridge Preserve are at it again. Pumping. Purging. Discharging. Leaking. Draining….
![Toll Brothers Orchard Ridge [Preserve] - The Environmental Damage Continues](https://i0.wp.com/citizens4usr.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/My-Post.jpg?fit=850%2C567&ssl=1)
It clearly was to much to hope that the continued environmental damage that Toll Brothers has unleashed on Upper Saddle River, Mahwah, Saddle River and downstream residents has finished. Despite over 700 days of continued pumping, runoff and no sanctions or penalties Upper Saddle River and Mahwah enacted a Stop Work Order in July 23,…
As the year wraps up Upper Saddle River mayor and council are holding their ‘End of Year Meeting’ at 4pm today (December 30, 2019). Agenda here. It appears mostly about shuffling money around (“transfer of appropriations”) and bonds, so if fiduciary issues are your thing it might be of interest and worth your time. It’s…
There is nothing like driving around Upper Saddle River to see what is going on. And what a surprise to be found along Carlough Road. Toll Brothers, clearly trying to dispose of the sordid image of a housing development on toxic soil linked to tainted water that has been dumped down the streams and rivers…
September 2019 was an unnaturally dry month, barely any rain fell. A good and bad thing for Toll Brothers at The Preserve, formerly knows as Apple Ridge. No one could see if their new and improved stormwater control worked. The one that they were forced to install after a Stop Work Order. So with no rain,…
Thursday August 15 was a busy day for Upper Saddle River. And once again it was thanks to Toll Brothers Thanks to the vigilance of citizen activists who have worked tirelessly to protect Upper Saddle River in the disastrous toxic mess caused by Toll Brothers this envious address was in the news. But not for…
In an interesting update to the ongoing environmental disaster at the Toll Brothers site the Borough of Upper Saddle River has instigated a Stop Work Order on Toll Brothers Preserve and One Lake Street, (along with Mahwah Orchard Ridge). In a late evening Swift 911 on July 23, 2019 the details were sent out to…
Two years and counting. The environmental nightmare that Toll Brothers created continues. The torrential rain that occurred yesterday (July 11, 2019) resulted in a flood of mud, laced with toxins, breaching the construction site and hitting Carlough Road. This has been going on for 2 years. 2 years. Let that sink in. When…