Supporting Documentation · May 7, 2025
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Show all pages4 a 10-tank seepage pit and tied in the installed drain lines from the simultaneously construction of the pool house and the pool. • West Orange DPW reviewed, inspected and approved the installed seepage pit. • While clearing the underbrush, Grabowski uncovered a rudimentary boulder wall that was not previously visible. • In order to install the approved seepage tans in the location set forth in the Matarazzo plans, Grabowski first had to move aside this prior boulder wall about 14 feet offsite from the eastern property line in order to have his heavy equipment stabilized to lift and install the seepage tanks. • After they were installed, Grabowski began to restore the boulder wall in a secure fashion with the intent that it would be no higher than 4 feet at its highest and most of the height would be 2-4 feet. • The currently higher boulder wall was temporarily showing necessary to keep in place and stabilize the newly installed seepage tanks, • The pool that has been installed has an infinity edge looking eastward and it would defeat the purpose of an infinity edge if any portion of the boulder wall was in the view quarters looking east over the infinity edge. • Had the township not ordered work on the boulder wall to stop in December 2023 and Grabowski been allowed to complete his work, the finished boulder wall would be in only a small section, 4 feet high, with the great majority of it running from 1 ½ to 4 feet. • Mr. Cohn would defer to the engineers from Colliers to describe the current plan to reduce the height of the boulder wall to even smaller heights utilizing a 2-tier system. • There was no stop work order on the pool and the pool house and work continued. Numerous inspections were made and approved. Work has been completed and is awaiting final inspections. • When they moved to 40 Eagle Ridge Way, there was a pre-existing drainage ditch running between 40 and 42 Eagle Ridge Way and at the eastern end back of the property it made a 45-degree left turn and then flew over the mountain into Llewellyn Park. • At the end of the ditch, right before it flies over the mountain, there were 2 round circular clay pipes that outflowed at the top of the mountain onto 29 Mountain Ave in Llewellyn Park • Water enters the drainage ditch upstream on Eagle Ridge Way from multiple sources. • Directly across from 40 and 42 Eagle Ridge Way is a wooded parcel owned
in onto 29 Mountain Ave in Llewellyn Park • Water enters the drainage ditch upstream on Eagle Ridge Way from multiple sources. • Directly across from 40 and 42 Eagle Ridge Way is a wooded parcel owned by the Crystal Point Condominium Association that collects runoff from upstream townhomes that are part of the Crystal Point Condominium Association. • There is a ditch within that wooden parcel with an outflow HPE pipe that originates in the Crystal Point parcel and goes underneath Eagle Ridge Way and daylights on 40 Eagle Ridge Way side into the drainage ditch. • In addition, at the same point of daylight in the drainage ditch, there’s a concrete pipe that runs from the storm water drainage that flows southward along Eagle Ridge Way from Boland Drive approx. 400 feet away. • There’s another wooden parcel owned by Crystal Point opposite 38 Eagle Ridge Way and has its own HPE pipe from that wooden parcel into the storm water basin drain on Eagle Ridge Way that then flows south into the drainage ditch that then proceeds east and ultimately down into Llewellyn Park. • Since moving in May 2021, Mr. Cohn personally observed that during storms both wooden parcels would overflow and flood Eagle Ridge Road and would take days before the water rescinded and flow down the drainage ditch. • The flooding in the Crystal Point parcels rotted out the roots of some trees and last year a
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