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Ridgewood NJ, in October of 2021 Superintendent of Ridgewood Schools Thomas Gorman told North Jersey Media on Wednesday that the district is still assessing the most recent damage after the Ho-Ho-kus brook flooded the RHS Stadium and Stevens Field at Ridgewood High School .He stated that the cost of repairs to the fields from previous storms , Henri in August and Ida in September were estimated at $260,000, of which $160,000 was covered by insurance. Superintendent Gorman then stated , “The Board of Education and the Village Council have agreed to form a joint task force to investigate this problem and explore possible solutions,”
In September we wrote ,”there is nothing more ridiculous than claiming “climate change” as a reason for poor planning . Forced over development, including turf fields in floodplains is a function of greed , and stupidity . Everyone, living or dead, knew the Ridgewood high school field flooded every time it rained . This has been documented since the school was built in 1895.”
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Hilarious…
Life in the trailer park by the river.
glass houses, dude. Not nice.
What did the former Mayor do???
Stop throwing stones
another 200k to clean.
This was Fast Eddie’s idea to put a turfed field next to the river.
They moved the track to BFMS. Jacob Brown said ‘no’ to a turfed field inside of the track. He knew soccer and Lacrosse would take priority. He was right.
Since then the sports daddies have been looking for spots to lay down turf.
When Glen Rock turfed their fields last it became too much for the sports dads.
If you are worried about water on your turf field move uphill. Ridge looks like a good spot for some turf and lights.
Move RHS to the valley hospital property
It’s not rocket science. The solution is to pull out the Astro turf.
Plant grass, these people are so stupid. They love spending money.
Whino is all over facebook talking field nonsense. Why is this woman so incredibly stupid, it is beyond me. She will do anything to please the sports people and create controversy, and her husband, big adult soccer far (he ran for president of the national soccer league but lost) may be planning to start a team if Schedler gets passed through. Can’t wait to see all of the infighting if that field gets built.
why use Facebook as a way to communicate? I think everyone knows that TapInto is just a marketing blog and not a real news outlet, but there has got to be a better way to get the word out that a FB page.
Another 7,million wasted. Can u imagine how much this is going to cost down the road to replace.
I think the sports organizations should chip in to exclusively pay for any of the sports equipment and pay for services to maintain the grass or if they want turf which everyone knows is toxic unless you are living under a rock. It is not fair for taxpayers to foot the bill for this nonsense when many people do not have children that play sports. They need to stop flapping their mouths and put their money where their mouths are.
someone may “allegedly” be getting a kickback on turf. This could be alleged pecuniary direct or indirect financial gain like turf vendors going to restaurants or businesses that a certain mayor owns. Allegedly, maybe Paul, whino, Evan? We already know the mayor paid off his good friend Richard Brooks and Gail Price to the tune of allegedly $47k so it wouldn’t be a stretch that there is more at “play” here. Get the pun.
How about re dredging the brook , they did it a long time ago. Some spots have sand barge’s from past storms.
Going back to articles in paper, BOE minutes and VC minutes, since 2019, at least -“we are setting up a joint task force to get solutions” yesterday BOE president again, alluded at this Task Force: like this is something new this week!! It’s not new Mr President of BOE . It wasn’t a surprise Mr President. You were President once before, when this happened. Where are your findings? Where are the answers?
Where is this Task Force?
Who is on this Task Force?
Why haven’t there been solutions?
Wake Up! Take responsibility! Get something done once and for all. Get something accomplished.
Mayor
VC
BOE
Town
State
AD
Superintendent
Someone do their job!
Zip got done . The village used to have a sucker truck out cleaning storm drains every day. And crews cleaning ditches. What happened to that. Who is responsible for ruining that department. Something is very wrong.
Seem to remember some folks saying turf fields were a bad idea back in 2004/2005.
Still true. Always will be. Dumb. Stop wasting money.
So that was just a photo op for president Mike Lembo?
Has he done anything in three years on the board except photo ops?
We can keep spending money on this stuff. Wake up. Put sod,
Dredging won’t happen anymore due to environmental laws. Build up the banks. Remove the bridge that constricts flow and diverts to the fields. Take out the plastic turf, plant grass and don’t repeat the same mistake elsewhere. Doesn’t provide the return on investment.
Dredging happens all over the state of NJ every single day. We just have to be willing to pay for it and for the disposal of the dredged materials..
Won’t get past impact assessment
It’s not as simple as just dredging, it’s an entire flood control scope. There is nothing, in terms of environment, that would prevent dredging and desnaffing.
what does it cost?
Huh ?
Water finds it’s own level.
There’s nothing you can do at the high school.
Either replace the turf with grass or move the field to another spot. We’re going to be talking about this again in 2 years.
You could send this problem/project to any high school or university engineering class and have it solved in a month. What a bunch of idiots.
How hard can it be?
Give me a back hoe and 200K and I’ll solve the god damn problem.
Drove by Glen rock today and the turf fields were full of kids……
What a joke.
The grass field would be destroyed through football use every year by November and end up being off-limits thereafter every year until graduation in June so that female graduates would have ample amounts of fresh grass to tread on, barefooted.
first world problems! Kill the environment for show business!
Hey guess what, build the field three feet higher.
just a guess but as high as the road in front of RHS , so like 7 feet ???
Unfortunately, this gives Pee Wee some cover…keep the heat on, James !
I’m not shocked by the Ridgewoods lack of care for the field. They know tax payers will just pay to have the field fixed again. And y’all are just playing into their money laundering scheme. It’s a joke that it’s been going on for this long and nobody has done a thing about it. Instead they’d rather spend millions to build a parking garage! Brilliant thinking boomers! Way to go! YEARS this has been going on but they can’t do anything to stop the bridge connecting stevens field to the highschool field which acts like a dam once it “floods” which can be avoided easily. But due to incompetence and NEGLECT, the people of ridgewood will still have to suffer. Goodluck I guess hahahaha