Environmental advocates and some local residents are calling for additional environmental review of the proposed Camp Fimfo Catskills campground development in the Town of Highland, saying new information and changes to the project warrant another look before the town moves forward.

The Delaware Riverkeeper Network is asking the town’s Planning Board to require a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Camp Fimfo project, including another public comment period and public hearings.

Shaelyn Parker, River Protection and Environmental Rights Advocacy Associate with the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, said the proposal by Northgate Resorts would transform the former Kittatinny Canoes campground in Barryville into a large-scale resort.

Plans include converting many existing tent campsites into RV sites, cabins, and glamping structures, along with adding water slides, swimming pools, miniature golf, parking, septic systems, and utility infrastructure.

Parker said the scale of the proposal, which is located within the federally protected Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River Corridor, has raised concerns about traffic, water resources, flooding and other environmental impacts.

“Delaware Riverkeeper Network has been following this project so closely because of all those potential environmental impacts, but also because if Northgate Resorts, the project applicant gets its way, we think we might be seeing more large-scale theme park-like operations invading our Upper Delaware region and amplifying the harm even more,” she said.

The Planning Board accepted the project’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement in November 2024. Parker said the public then had about three and a half months to comment, during which residents and environmental organizations submitted hundreds of comments.

Since then, the board has sought at least six expert reviews, while the project applicant has apparently proposed changes to the development, according to Parker.

She said the public has not yet seen another version of the Final Environmental Impact Statement or the findings of those expert reviews.

“We expect the project to look completely different from what was first proposed and accepted in November 2024,” Parker said.

Parker said a supplemental review would allow the Planning Board and public to evaluate any new information and proposed changes together.

The organization is asking for a minimum 90-day public comment period on a supplemental EIS, along with at least three public hearings. It also wants updated site plans and the expert reports included in the document.

An information and action meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 17, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at St. Anthony of Padua and St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 25 Beaver Brook Road in Highland. The meeting will be held in the Community Hall across from the church.