The Patrick Farm is an environmentally sensitive site overlaying the headwaters of the EPA protected sole source Mahwah-Ramapo aquifer which supplies drinking water for a large population in New York and New Jersey.

The Town of Ramapo is in the process of fast tracking subdivision and site plan approval for 500 homes to be built on the site, which will include the cutting and filling of 500,000 cubic yards of the mantle currently protecting this environmentally sensitive site. 

There are inaccuracies and deficiencies in the current wetland map for this property and the large scale development planned for the property is proposed for areas immediately adjacent to documented wetlands and on top of other others which are thought by independent experts to also be wetlands.

It is vitally important to the health of these wetlands and the health of the public water supply to get these wetlands properly delineated before the town approves of the currently proposed large scale development for this property and sets in motion the large scale destruction of the environmental sensitive ecosystems of this site affecting the recharge of the aquifers, potentially polluting the Mahwah River, and adding to the already problematic flooding of homes downstream.