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There is no doubt that flooding became significantly greater on the HS Fields after all the widening and building that has been done over the past twenty years. There’s the recycling center parking lot, the roller hockey rink, Maple field, Village Hall, the Library and the various parking lots around Graydon to go with the walls around Graydon and the berms below Vets field leading down to the N. Irving / Overbrook bridge. The HoHoKus Brook floodplain was already overbuilt before the fields were proposed.
This was explained to the various public bodies driving to jam these fields into the Stadium and Stevens. And was ignored. Now that we’ve had a wake-up call, we’re asking for help from Christie. The really bad deal we got from Trenton was approval of these fields by the DEP in the first place.
The problem the DEP has with your proposed solution (as you admit) is that it kicks the can down the road toward Lower Ridgewood and Glen Rock. Where do you propose to stop? Or are the field all you’re worrying about and you don’t care what happens after that?
