From NJ Herald
| Opposition grows to plans for I-80 fence in Knowlton |
A fast-expanding circle of citizens, governing bodies, elected officials and conservation-minded groups is becoming involved in efforts to stop or severely alter the state Department of Transportation’s plan to build a wall along a section of the Interstate 80 that runs through the Delaware Water Gap.
The object of the wall is to keep rocks and boulders from falling from the cliffs of Mount Tammany onto the highway that runs between the base of the mountain and the Delaware River, which carved the gap.
Late last month, the Knowlton Township Committee passed a resolution opposing the DOT’s planned fence, which Mayor Adele Starrs calls “Jurassic Park-like.”
On Feb. 21, the Hardwick Township Committee approved a similar resolution with the three committee members, almost in unison, saying, “I move the resolution.”
The formal wording will be memorialized at the committee’s March 7 meeting.
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