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Resident urges action on decades-old drainage and maintenance problems at Delaware Park
Summary
At the reorganization meeting a Middletown resident, Joseph Fitch, told the Board of Supervisors that drainage problems, beaver damage, trespassing and trash at Delaware Park have persisted for decades and asked staff to intervene; township staff offered to investigate and follow up.
Joseph Fitch, a resident of 346 Wyoming Avenue in the Oakleyhurst section, used the public-comment period at the Middletown Township reorganization meeting to describe long-standing drainage and maintenance issues at an area referred to in the meeting as Delaware Park.
"We've had an ongoing problem since the late sixties, early seventies with the water issue," Fitch said, describing a history of erosion, unmaintained retention basins and sinkholes on or adjacent to private property. He told the board that beavers have cut down trees, fences have been damaged (creating access to nearby…
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