EX Flow 2240719_JC_JF_Memo

300 Tice Boulevard Suite 101 Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 Main: 877 627 3772 Memorandum VIA EMAIL July 19, 2024 Zayibeth Carballo Township of West Orange, Department of Engineering 25 Lakeside Avenue West Orange, NJ 07052 40-42 Eagle Ridge Way Block 106, Lots 20.03 & 24.01 Township of West Orange, Essex County, NJ 07052 Project No. 24006174A Dear Ms. Carballo, Our office acknowledges receipt of your correspondence dated July 9, 2024, regarding the above referenced project. Please accept this letter as both a response to the comments and concerns outlined in your letter and in furtherance of our conversations and my preliminary recommendations, The applicant has submitted interim as-built surveys from Omland & Osterkorn Inc. of both properties showing the current wall elevations, drainage features, and dimensions to the property lines.1 Our office has been retained to prepare a comprehensive major site plan application with a stormwater report that we expect to deliver to you within the next four weeks. Given that the design, review, and approval process will require time to prepare, we propose a temporary lift of the current stop work order to address some of the immediate concerns on the site: 1. The previously used verbiage including “temporary/emergency construction allowance” and “potentially hazardous conditions”, appears to have caused a negative reaction from the Township. That was not the intent. The immediate or emergency concerns pertain to the newly installed 36” wide elliptical RCP storm pipe at the outfall of the existing drainage channel which we understand has been the source of concerns by the Township and the adjoining neighbors. Site inspection photos of a 36” elliptical RCP storm pipe can be seen below, along with Omland & Osterkorn’s survey of the As-Built conditions showing the 36” elliptical RCP pipe and associated elevations. Based on conversations and correspondence with the applicant, there was a directive by the Hudson Essex Passaic Soil Conservation District (HEPSCD) to clean and maintain the existing drainage channel that traverses 40 and 1 These interim as-built surveys were first mailed by Priscila Triolo, Esq. to Richard Trenk, Esq, via Fed Ex on June 21, 2024 and then pdf versions were emailed to you and others on June 26, 2024 in response to Mr. Trenk’s request for an email version to be circulated. So there is no further

Esq, via Fed Ex on June 21, 2024 and then pdf versions were emailed to you and others on June 26, 2024 in response to Mr. Trenk’s request for an email version to be circulated. So there is no further misunderstandings, I am attaching another copy of these interim as built surveys.