July 16, 2025, Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 79 West Orange. Again, that's 163 Oval Road, Essex Fells, that house to the left. What you're seeing is typical of what I described in my testimony in a medium to heavy rainfall. This is after the rain subsides. Back up two seconds to the wooden gate. Right there. That wooden gate I described in my testimony, that's the border of West Orange and Essex Fells. That's Oval Road on both sides of it. So the water, asked by the council -- I'm sorry, by the Planning Board member when I talked about concerns about potential impact on the road washing out and potentially cutting off emergency access, like police and fire, the emergency access through that gate, I think it's controlled by Essex Fells. You see water on the left, you see water on the right, that's the level of the water I referenced. I'm concerned about it, current conditions under a rainstorm that road is under stress and the infrastructure you're seeing, which we will see more detail going forward, is under stress. So that's the impact I'm concerned about. To the left. Again, that's the entrance to Essex Fells Country Club. That's coming from West Orange. All that water on your left that -- stop it. That water, that bridge is on the grounds of Essex Fells