One of the biggest issues to the community in the Northwest Bronx, especially those who jog around the Jerome Park Reservoir is - Why are there two fences around the reservoir? In all the MTA subway yards in the area there is only one fence around the train yards. Even the prize of the Bronx Yankee Stadium does not a fence around it, but metal bollards that prevent vehicles from going into any part of Yankee Stadium. By the way in the photos below you will see that on the Goulden Avenue side of the Jerome Park Reservoir the DEP has such barriers in place, so just what is the need for 2 fences if they can not stop vehicles from going through them needed?
Above - It seems that the DEP is already using Bollards similar to those around Yankee Stadium in its security plan here at the entrance driveway to Gate House 5.
Below - Here also in front of Gate House 5 the DEP has installed Bollards to keep out any unwanted vehicles, so why are there 2 fences that do not stop vehicles
Above - The outer security fence will not stop any vehicle that wants to go through, but as you see Below - it is the metal barrier that is raised that will stop any vehicle and not the outer fence. The barrier lowers to allow cars to enter here.
Above and Below - you see workers finishing the landscape in front of the 4 foot wall that will also keep out any vehicle, and not the outer fence behind the wall. The same is for a;most any other surrounding part of the reservoir. It is not the outer fence that will keep out any vehicles, but the walls and barriers that will.
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I helped build that sliding gate in 2005-06... it weighs 10,000 pounds and has a solid steel I-beam through it's center, which slides along three h-beam posts anchored 7 feet deep and 3 feet in diameter with concrete. It can stop a 2.5 ton Army truck traveling at 55 mph without compromising the security of the fence... The fence posts have two 1" thick braided steel cables braided within the center rails and anchored with 15 feet of concrete within the poles. Also, the approach to the entrance is at such an angle that a straight-on hit at 55mph+ by a vehicle large enough to breach the fence would be virtually impossible
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