"What happens on that hill directly affects the drinking water for all of Monmouth County." "Crawford Hill is at the highest elevation in Monmouth County and there are many stream systems running throughout Holmdel that see the Swimming Water River Reservoir," Roth said. Their other goal with this site is to look out for the possible impacts to the local watershed. "The best plan is for it to be preserved as a park and open space so that everyone can access it," Roth said. Some of the combined efforts, Roth adds, include signing petitions and expressing their concern to the township committee. "There's a coalition of residents in Holmdel that are working together to help keep all of our residents informed about what's going on," Roth said. The group is not the only group or residents looking to protect the horn. "The fact that Crawford Hill lies in a very environmentally sensitive zone - for us, that's reason enough to protect the area - you add to the fact that it's a national landmark of cosmic significance on the site, and so, we're asking the question of why development is even on the table," Roth said. In addition to the concern for the relocation of the horn comes one for the local environment as well. "That plan that they've put forward - the horn antenna is still on the property, however, it's been relocated across the property and in its spot there are 86 tightly clustered townhomes," Roth said. Then, Roth said they saw new proposed plans released by the developer about the placement of the horn.
"We were able to receive three documents, which were concept plans - one from January of 2022, April 2022, and November 2022 - and the third plan, which was the most recent we were able to get access to shows that the horn had actually been relocated from the property entirely and replaced with townhomes," Roth tells Townsquare Media.
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