Bedford Village Ice Pond Summer 2012

Eutrophic Bedford Village Ice Pond covered with algae slime September, 2012. Once the source of clear ice stored under hay and sold across from Rock Hill Road on Long Ridge Road. Marked "Private" with new stone wall enclosing the pond for benefit of the residences built along the North side of the pond adjacent to the National Historic District. This inappropriate residential structures were jump started by real estate developers whom bullied the town into providing permits, to profit by flipping the properties to others for new construction of residential homes. The Town of Bedford tried to stop this through enforcing the zoning and land use regulations, but these deep pockets and politically-connected real estate developers took them to state supreme court to bulldoze the SEQR environmental review process. The result is a graphic degradation of the historic village ice pond, the source for centuries of clear, cold ice for local residents during the hot summer months.