Save the Fell House

CELERY FARM FLOODING

   A friend made this 2-minute video after Tropical Storm Hanna in early September inundated the Celery Farm with stormwater run-off.

    The headline in The Record the next day said that the storm "let us off easy." It did not let the Celery Farm off easty,

    What would happen if 11 townhouses were built across the street, and the stormwater run-off from those buildings, 47 parking spaces and other paved surfaces, flowed into the Celery Farm? That's the developer's plan.

    

AERIAL VIEW

 

    IN THIS AERIAL VIEW, The Fell House is in the middle on the left.
    The Franklin Turnpike goes from the upper middle left to the lower middle right.
    The dark spot in the upper right is the Celery Farm and Lake Appert.
    The developer wants to tear down the historic house, barn and root cellar, build 11 townhouses, and have all stormwater runoff flow under Franklin Turnpike and into the Celery Farm.