Angel Disla has lived across Reservoir Avenue from the Stanley M. Levine Reservoir in Paterson since 2006. He worries that replacing the reservoir with water tanks would destroy the view, which isn't bad even through the barbed wire fence.Steve Strunsky | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Despite the barbed wire perimeter fence, the 135-year-old Stanley M. Levine Reservoir provides a refreshing if only semi-natural bit of beauty for residents of the Paterson neighborhood that surrounds it.

“It’s not like a park that you can walk in,” said Angel Disla, a 40-year-old trucking company owner who lives with his wife and two children on Reservoir Avenue. “But at least there’s a view.”

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