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 80 Country Club. It's a situation, again, Borough of Essex Fells and all the surrounding towns have a direct interest here. The Borough's owned the water utility since 1920, owned the land to the left. Basically right from the foreground, which you see as a golf course is what we consider a well field, roughly 17 acre well field. We owned it since 1920. We maintain it for water purposes. We lease the land to the Country Club. That little bridge you see in the foreground is for golf purposes. The country club built that, it's spanning the Canoe Brook. So the water -- now you're back into West Orange, the project site. You're looking across the Country Club. In the far distance is basically Eagle Rock Avenue and toward Roseland. All right. So just if you go back. Pan to the left. When I talked about the building, we have the Borough of Essex Fells owns on this site, right. A well field. The building you see before you is owned by the Borough of Essex Fells. It's currently a storage building but that is the site. Half that building doesn't exist any more because that's where we're building a PFAS treatment facility that I mentioned. So that's the, currently the three million dollar project, could go up to five million dollars. That's going to be