New street , Great Notch , Stanley Levine are 3 of the 5 . Not sure the other 2 . Cryptosporidium is supposedly the Big factor in all this , yet it's extermely rare n unlikely . Cuctomers in Bergen County n Passaic County will ultimately be the ones who suffer since Premium Rates will reflect the cost of this project .. More info on Northjersey.com
Yeah, I know it helps if you attach the article. So here it is. 
Fisherman loses his truck in West Milford reservoir
Thursday September 13, 2012, 9:13 PM
BY JEFF GREEN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Pages: 1 2 > display on one page | Print | E-mail WEST MILFORD — A fisherman wound up having his pickup truck fished out of the Oak Ridge Reservoir on Thursday afternoon after losing control of the vehicle while hooking up his boat to a trailer.
Harry Bardroff, 57, of Lyndhurst, and a friend were wrapping up a morning on the water near Reservoir Road and Route 23. Bardroff said while checking the truck’s trailer from the driver’s seat, he fell out of the vehicle. His 1999 Dodge Ram, still in reverse, backed into the reservoir, rolling over Bardroff’s leg in the process.
“The truck was in reverse and it kept going backwards,” Bardroff said.
“I’m OK,” he said, marveling that he escaped with only minor injuries. “The way I fell out, I can’t understand it.”
Jason Roth, owner of J&J Towing in West Milford, and others spent three hours removing the fully submerged truck from the water. It took so long because Roth, in his underwear, had to dive underwater to find the right place on the Dodge to hook up with his tow truck.
“In 18 years, I can pretty much do everything. This is the first one I had to go swimming for,” said Roth, 41. “It’s the craziest one without a doubt.”
Once the truck was attached, it had to be flipped upside down to remove it from a ravine in which it was wedged. After dragging the truck out, it was put right side up and placed on a flat bed. The truck’s hood was caved in and windshield entirely cracked.
Roth said since the vehicle was running when it went in, water was sucked into the air cleaner and instantly ruined its parts.
“The motor, the transmission, everything is shot at that point,” he said. “If it wasn’t running, he would have had a chance.”
Multiple government agencies responded, including local police, the state departments of health and environmental protection and the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department hazardous materials team. Officials “confined and contained” a section of the reservoir where transmission fluid and other liquids could have leaked out of the truck, West Milford Fire Marshal Ron Svrchek said.
Fisherman loses his truck in West Milford reservoir
Thursday September 13, 2012, 9:13 PM
BY JEFF GREEN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Pages: 1 2 > display on one page | Print | E-mail WEST MILFORD — A fisherman wound up having his pickup truck fished out of the Oak Ridge Reservoir on Thursday afternoon after losing control of the vehicle while hooking up his boat to a trailer.
Harry Bardroff, 57, of Lyndhurst, and a friend were wrapping up a morning on the water near Reservoir Road and Route 23. Bardroff said while checking the truck’s trailer from the driver’s seat, he fell out of the vehicle. His 1999 Dodge Ram, still in reverse, backed into the reservoir, rolling over Bardroff’s leg in the process.
“The truck was in reverse and it kept going backwards,” Bardroff said.
“I’m OK,” he said, marveling that he escaped with only minor injuries. “The way I fell out, I can’t understand it.”
Jason Roth, owner of J&J Towing in West Milford, and others spent three hours removing the fully submerged truck from the water. It took so long because Roth, in his underwear, had to dive underwater to find the right place on the Dodge to hook up with his tow truck.
“In 18 years, I can pretty much do everything. This is the first one I had to go swimming for,” said Roth, 41. “It’s the craziest one without a doubt.”
Once the truck was attached, it had to be flipped upside down to remove it from a ravine in which it was wedged. After dragging the truck out, it was put right side up and placed on a flat bed. The truck’s hood was caved in and windshield entirely cracked.
Roth said since the vehicle was running when it went in, water was sucked into the air cleaner and instantly ruined its parts.
“The motor, the transmission, everything is shot at that point,” he said. “If it wasn’t running, he would have had a chance.”
Multiple government agencies responded, including local police, the state departments of health and environmental protection and the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department hazardous materials team. Officials “confined and contained” a section of the reservoir where transmission fluid and other liquids could have leaked out of the truck, West Milford Fire Marshal Ron Svrchek said.
- The Record -
A controversial $100 million plan that would radically alter the landscape of Garret Mountain by draining three reservoirs and replacing them with concrete tanks has gotten the green light from the state.
Under U.S. rules, the New Street Reservoir in Woodland Park, above, and two others on Garret Mountain will be converted to covered tanks.
The approval comes despite rising opposition from local political and environmental leaders in Bergen and Passaic counties who say the project, beyond defiling the beauty of the area, is an expensive solution to a nearly non-existent threat to drinking water.
At the same time, though, the project proposed by the Passaic Valley Water Commission does enjoy the key support of U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., the Democratic congressman whose district is served by the reservoirs.
The seven-year plan — which would drain the Stanley Levine, New Street and Great Notch reservoirs beginning in 2014 — recently received Department of Environmental Protection approval despite the fact the federal government is reviewing its mandate to “cover or treat” reservoir water after New York and Oregon protested the huge costs of similar projects, including one in Westchester County that has drawn the ire of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
“Now that we have the letter from the DEP, we can move forward with the project,” said Jim Duprey, head of engineering for the water commission. Duprey said the next step is for the commission to hire a consultant to design and oversee the three phases of construction scheduled to begin at the Levine Reservoir off Grand Street in Paterson sometime in 2014.
Duprey said that despite costs and mounting political pressure, he felt it was “highly unlikely” that the EPA would rescind the Long Term Enhanced Water Treatment Rule (LT2), which requires utilities that store treated drinking water in open-air reservoirs to either cover or encapsulate those facilities, or build treatment plants on site to retreat the water.
Duprey said the rule addresses the very real threat from cryptosporidium, a water-borne parasitedeposited by birds and wildlife, which is resistant to chlorine. High concentrations of cryptosporidium can make people sick, even kill them in rare cases.
Critics contend that cryptosporidium outbreaks are rare and that the water commission’s 70,000 ratepayers, mostly in Passaic and Bergen counties, will be forced to pay a lot more to address a public health problem that rarely occurs.
The Passaic County Freeholders and the municipal councils of Woodland Park and North Arlington have recently adopted resolutions opposing the project, joining two non-profits, New Jersey Community Development Corp. and Friends of Garret Mountain.
“Find another way,” said Chris Tackacs, head of Friends of Garret Mountain. “We keep hearing that this is the product of a federal mandate and we can’t do anything about it. But there’s got to be a better way to protect the treated water than to desecrate Garret Mountain.”
Cost-effectiveness issue
At least one other state, New York, is looking for another way.
In July 2011, Schumer sent a letter to Lisa Jackson, administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, seeking an extension from 2028 until 2034 to cover the Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers, a project estimated to cost $1.6 billion.
In his letter to Jackson, published on his website, Schumer urged the EPA to show some “flexibility” and “instead of forcing a billion-dollar lid onto a round container,” the EPA should work with New York to find a “cheaper, effective solution to keep drinking water clean.” Schumer could not be reached for an interview.
Jackson didn’t address Schumer’s request for an extension in her written response, which has circulated on the Web, but she did write that the agency would review the LT2 rule, seeking “additional ways to manage risk while assuring equivalent or improved” protection for public health
“I agree with you that we should and can find cost-effective ways of achieving these public health protections,” Jackson wrote. “For this reason, EPA will initiate a review process for regulation requiring covers on reservoirs such as Hillview.”
Key members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation have been largely silent on the Garret Mountain project. Pascrell, whose 9th Congressional District encompasses Garret Mountain, supports the project. And both U.S. senators from New Jersey, Democrats Frank Lautenberg and Bob Menendez, say they’ve heard nothing from constituents.
“Congressman Pascrell strongly believes that the security of our water supply and protecting public health need to be taken very seriously,” said Tom Pietrykoski, a spokesman. “His staff has spent the last several months consulting with all the relevant parties, and we will continue to look at this project and policy concerning it closely.”
Caley Gray, a spokesman for Lautenberg, said the senator was “looking into the project and seeking ways to provide more federal assistance to protect and improve New Jersey’s water infrastructure.”
Patricia Enright, a spokeswoman for Menendez, said the senator “supports protecting public health while providing local communities the flexibility they need to protect their citizens in a cost-effective manner.
“Senator Menendez will be monitoring the situation closely as the state works with local utilities to improve water quality.”
President Obama ordered the EPA to review all its regulations for cost effectiveness and sound science in Executive Order 13563, which he signed in February 2011.
Jackson, the EPA administrator, told Schumer that the review of LT2 would be “expedited” but did not say when it would be completed. The EPA said the review of all regulations should be done by 2016. Meanwhile, the EPA has directed states to move forward with their plans to cover their reservoirs.
The federal mandate applies to 37 open-air reservoirs that store treated drinking water scattered throughout the United States. Five of them are in New Jersey: Aside from the three on Garret Mountain, another is about a mile from Great Notch on Ridge Road in Cedar Grove and is operated by the city of Newark. The other is in Trenton.
Newark has said it plans to leave its open-air reservoir in Cedar Grove intact and build a treatment plant on the shore instead of creating concrete tanks. That project is supposed to coincide with the Passaic Valley Water Commission’s draining of Great Notch in Phase III, sometime around 2017. The DEP has ordered both Newark and the water commission to draw up a consent agreement to ensure that both water utilities are in sync as the reservoirs are encapsulated in tanks.
Phase I of the project is scheduled to begin in 2014 with the draining of the Levine Reservoir, followed by the construction of two, 2.5-million-gallon concrete tanks. Phase II involves draining the New Street reservoir sometime in 2016, demolishing a dam and constructing two, 15-million-gallon concrete tanks and a new pump station. The Great Notch Reservoir is to get two, 20-million-gallon tanks in Phase III.
The Passaic Valley Water Commission plans to pay for the project by taking a series of low-interest loans from the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust. Those loans are to be paid back through a series of rate increases borne by the utility’s 70,000 customers. The project is scheduled to be finished in 2019.
But before any construction can begin, the state Historic Preservation Office must conduct archaeological surveys at Levine, New Street and Great Notch. The Levine reservoir sits within the boundaries of the Paterson-Great Falls Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The New Street reservoir is part of Garret Mountain Reservation, which in 1979 was deemed eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places
A controversial $100 million plan that would radically alter the landscape of Garret Mountain by draining three reservoirs and replacing them with concrete tanks has gotten the green light from the state.
Under U.S. rules, the New Street Reservoir in Woodland Park, above, and two others on Garret Mountain will be converted to covered tanks.
The approval comes despite rising opposition from local political and environmental leaders in Bergen and Passaic counties who say the project, beyond defiling the beauty of the area, is an expensive solution to a nearly non-existent threat to drinking water.
At the same time, though, the project proposed by the Passaic Valley Water Commission does enjoy the key support of U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., the Democratic congressman whose district is served by the reservoirs.
The seven-year plan — which would drain the Stanley Levine, New Street and Great Notch reservoirs beginning in 2014 — recently received Department of Environmental Protection approval despite the fact the federal government is reviewing its mandate to “cover or treat” reservoir water after New York and Oregon protested the huge costs of similar projects, including one in Westchester County that has drawn the ire of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
“Now that we have the letter from the DEP, we can move forward with the project,” said Jim Duprey, head of engineering for the water commission. Duprey said the next step is for the commission to hire a consultant to design and oversee the three phases of construction scheduled to begin at the Levine Reservoir off Grand Street in Paterson sometime in 2014.
Duprey said that despite costs and mounting political pressure, he felt it was “highly unlikely” that the EPA would rescind the Long Term Enhanced Water Treatment Rule (LT2), which requires utilities that store treated drinking water in open-air reservoirs to either cover or encapsulate those facilities, or build treatment plants on site to retreat the water.
Duprey said the rule addresses the very real threat from cryptosporidium, a water-borne parasitedeposited by birds and wildlife, which is resistant to chlorine. High concentrations of cryptosporidium can make people sick, even kill them in rare cases.
Critics contend that cryptosporidium outbreaks are rare and that the water commission’s 70,000 ratepayers, mostly in Passaic and Bergen counties, will be forced to pay a lot more to address a public health problem that rarely occurs.
The Passaic County Freeholders and the municipal councils of Woodland Park and North Arlington have recently adopted resolutions opposing the project, joining two non-profits, New Jersey Community Development Corp. and Friends of Garret Mountain.
“Find another way,” said Chris Tackacs, head of Friends of Garret Mountain. “We keep hearing that this is the product of a federal mandate and we can’t do anything about it. But there’s got to be a better way to protect the treated water than to desecrate Garret Mountain.”
Cost-effectiveness issue
At least one other state, New York, is looking for another way.
In July 2011, Schumer sent a letter to Lisa Jackson, administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, seeking an extension from 2028 until 2034 to cover the Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers, a project estimated to cost $1.6 billion.
In his letter to Jackson, published on his website, Schumer urged the EPA to show some “flexibility” and “instead of forcing a billion-dollar lid onto a round container,” the EPA should work with New York to find a “cheaper, effective solution to keep drinking water clean.” Schumer could not be reached for an interview.
Jackson didn’t address Schumer’s request for an extension in her written response, which has circulated on the Web, but she did write that the agency would review the LT2 rule, seeking “additional ways to manage risk while assuring equivalent or improved” protection for public health
“I agree with you that we should and can find cost-effective ways of achieving these public health protections,” Jackson wrote. “For this reason, EPA will initiate a review process for regulation requiring covers on reservoirs such as Hillview.”
Key members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation have been largely silent on the Garret Mountain project. Pascrell, whose 9th Congressional District encompasses Garret Mountain, supports the project. And both U.S. senators from New Jersey, Democrats Frank Lautenberg and Bob Menendez, say they’ve heard nothing from constituents.
“Congressman Pascrell strongly believes that the security of our water supply and protecting public health need to be taken very seriously,” said Tom Pietrykoski, a spokesman. “His staff has spent the last several months consulting with all the relevant parties, and we will continue to look at this project and policy concerning it closely.”
Caley Gray, a spokesman for Lautenberg, said the senator was “looking into the project and seeking ways to provide more federal assistance to protect and improve New Jersey’s water infrastructure.”
Patricia Enright, a spokeswoman for Menendez, said the senator “supports protecting public health while providing local communities the flexibility they need to protect their citizens in a cost-effective manner.
“Senator Menendez will be monitoring the situation closely as the state works with local utilities to improve water quality.”
President Obama ordered the EPA to review all its regulations for cost effectiveness and sound science in Executive Order 13563, which he signed in February 2011.
Jackson, the EPA administrator, told Schumer that the review of LT2 would be “expedited” but did not say when it would be completed. The EPA said the review of all regulations should be done by 2016. Meanwhile, the EPA has directed states to move forward with their plans to cover their reservoirs.
The federal mandate applies to 37 open-air reservoirs that store treated drinking water scattered throughout the United States. Five of them are in New Jersey: Aside from the three on Garret Mountain, another is about a mile from Great Notch on Ridge Road in Cedar Grove and is operated by the city of Newark. The other is in Trenton.
Newark has said it plans to leave its open-air reservoir in Cedar Grove intact and build a treatment plant on the shore instead of creating concrete tanks. That project is supposed to coincide with the Passaic Valley Water Commission’s draining of Great Notch in Phase III, sometime around 2017. The DEP has ordered both Newark and the water commission to draw up a consent agreement to ensure that both water utilities are in sync as the reservoirs are encapsulated in tanks.
Phase I of the project is scheduled to begin in 2014 with the draining of the Levine Reservoir, followed by the construction of two, 2.5-million-gallon concrete tanks. Phase II involves draining the New Street reservoir sometime in 2016, demolishing a dam and constructing two, 15-million-gallon concrete tanks and a new pump station. The Great Notch Reservoir is to get two, 20-million-gallon tanks in Phase III.
The Passaic Valley Water Commission plans to pay for the project by taking a series of low-interest loans from the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust. Those loans are to be paid back through a series of rate increases borne by the utility’s 70,000 customers. The project is scheduled to be finished in 2019.
But before any construction can begin, the state Historic Preservation Office must conduct archaeological surveys at Levine, New Street and Great Notch. The Levine reservoir sits within the boundaries of the Paterson-Great Falls Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The New Street reservoir is part of Garret Mountain Reservation, which in 1979 was deemed eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places