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34: 421:, Justia. Accessed March 18, 2015. "The relevant facts are essentially undisputed. UWNJ provides water to customers in sixty municipalities in Bergen and Hudson Counties. To do so, UWNJ utilizes, among other facilities, the Woodcliff Lake Reservoir, which is located in Hillsdale and the Borough of Woodcliff Lake ('Woodcliff Lake'). One of the reservoir's structures is a dam across the Pascack Brook, which UWNJ's predecessor, Hackensack Water Company, constructed in 1904. The dam is traversed by Church Road, a private road owned by UWNJ that is subject to use easements held by Hillsdale and Woodcliff Lake." 64: 71: 41: 407:, February 28, 2014. Accessed March 18, 2015. "United Water plans to lower Church Road, which is situated above the dam, for additional spillway capacity, as well as widen the narrow roadway. As a result, Church Road, an east-west thoroughfare through Hillsdale, will be closed to traffic from April 1 through Dec. 31, 2015." 304:
Several species of fish inhabit the reservoir including largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, carp, pumpkinseed, bluegill, brown and yellow bullheads, as well as large schools of both yellow and white perch. Fishing is restricted to those with a valid New Jersey Fishing License and a Watershed Permit
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The reservoir may be crossed at two points, either by a narrow road over the dam, originally Dam Road and changed to Church Road when Christ Lutheran Church was built at the Pascack Road entrance, or a higher traffic county road over a
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which joins the Pascack at the reservoir. The creation of the lake led what had been the Borough of Woodcliff to change its name to Woodcliff Lake, to match the name of the new reservoir. The reservoir is owned by
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The reservoir has a capacity of approximately 871 million US gallons (3,300,000 m) of water. Water released into the Pascack Brook flows downstream into the
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reservoir and proposed protecting it, Woodcliff Lake and their tributaries with Category 1 water purity status.
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Woodcliff Lake Reservoir
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New Jersey Governor McGreevey Seeks Purity Standards for 2 Bergen Reservoirs
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obtained by payment of a yearly fee to the owner of the reservoir,
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Summary of Monthly Hydrologic Conditions in New Jersey
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UNITED WATER NEW JERSEY, INC. v. BOROUGH OF HILLSDALE
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Location of Woodcliff Lake Reservoir in New Jersey, USA.
Location of Woodcliff Lake Reservoir in New Jersey, USA.
Bergen County
New Jersey
United States
41°01′09″N 74°02′36″W / 41.019089°N 74.043388°W / 41.019089; -74.043388
Lake type
Reservoir
Primary inflows
Pascack Brook
Bear Brook
Primary outflows
Pascack Brook
Basin
Surface area
Water volume
reservoir
Woodcliff Lake
Hillsdale
Park Ridge
Bergen County
New Jersey
damming
Pascack Brook
Bear Brook
Suez North America
Oradell Reservoir
Suez North America
causeway
New Jersey Transit

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