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Village Engineering Department Conducts Outreach to Property Owners in Flood Hazard Areas

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May 16,2015

Ridgewood NJ, As part of the CRS program for the Village, the Engineering Department sends out an annual letter to properties that are located in the Flood Hazard Area of the Village. for a copy of the Village of Ridgewood Annual letter to residents with property in the flood plain Click Her

The Engineering Department also sends a informational letter to local banks, realtors, and insurance companies that service the Village,copy attached. Click Here

The new flood maps may capture additional properties. The Ridgewood Engineering Department will help those property owners as best as we can, although they may have to retain a professional land surveyor and/or professional engineer for their properties.

Existing LOMA’s (Letters of Map Amendment, which indicate a structure on a property in the Flood Hazard Area is not within the limits of the Flood Hazard Area) may not carry over to the new maps (this happened the last time). Those property owners will have a lot of work to do to re-establish their LOMA’s.

The Village outreach letter to property owners generally goes out each year in the Fall.

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Heavy rain drenches parts of New Jersey but sun to return according to forecast

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Heavy rain drenches parts of New Jersey but sun to return according to forecast

AUGUST 13, 2014, 7:48 AM    LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2014, 7:49 AM
BY STAFF AND WIRE REPORT
NORTHJERSEY.COM

Heavy rain that has soaked parts of New Jersey is starting to move away from the state, leaving behind street flooding and power outages.

Today will be cloudy with a chance of showers and highs near 86. Sunny skies with highs in the eighties can be expected throughout the rest of the week and into the weekend.

There are no reported delays on New Jersey Transit trains and buses or at the local airports.

Unofficial National Weather Service observations show nearly 9 inches of rain fell at Millville Airport in Cumberland County between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. There was more than 7 inches in Stafford, more than 5 inches at Atlantic City airport and in Manasquan, and more than 4 inches in Tabernacle.

There are 7,734 homes and businesses without electricity Wednesday. Most are in Monmouth and Morris counties.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/heavy-rain-drenches-parts-of-new-jersey-but-sun-to-return-according-to-forecast-1.1066592#sthash.CCjh0bm0.dpuf

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Reader says Time to Pull the Plug of Turf Fields

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Reader says Time to Pull the Plug of Turf Fields

It’s time to pull the plug on our turf fields. The locations are not conducive to turf material. With the over $100,000 in repairs we could take that money to go back to grass. The money we have spent in fixing each if these damaged episodes could have been used for another employee or two in our maintenance dept which is short employees (our town’s landscape is falling apart and w the taxes we pay, our town should be looking well attended and it’s not!! The best landscaped areas are the ones donated by kind vendors, not our village tax dollars.). What about the Schedler property for turf, or Habernickel Farm, or Citizens park or one of the elementary schools that don’t flood?

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Readers say Time to Reexamine Turf Fields ?

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Readers say Time to Reexamine Turf Fields ?

6 storms in 4 short years…so much for the 100-year storm hooey.

Do you have the repairs costs as well…?

Mother Nature keeps mastering the Master Plan.

Thee field was put in during summer 2010. We’ve had floods worth remembering on:

– October 1, 2010 (there was wrinkling of the carpet then and in all the other events below)
– March 8, 2011
– April 17, 2011
– Jun 23, 2011 (graduation)
– August 29, 2011 (Irene)
-August 1, 2014

Sandy didn’t cause a lot of flooding. It was more of a wind event

We’ve had minor flooding many other times, but not to the scale above

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FLASH FLOOD WATCH

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FLASH FLOOD WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
358 AM EDT MON JUL 14 2014

…FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL INCREASES THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY
NIGHT…

…FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM NOON EDT TODAY THROUGH LATE
TUESDAY NIGHT…

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT…
NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK…INCLUDING THE
FOLLOWING AREAS…IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT…NORTHERN
FAIRFIELD…NORTHERN MIDDLESEX…NORTHERN NEW HAVEN…NORTHERN
NEW LONDON…SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD…SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX…
SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN AND SOUTHERN NEW LONDON. IN NORTHEAST NEW
JERSEY…EASTERN BERGEN…EASTERN ESSEX…EASTERN PASSAIC…
EASTERN UNION…HUDSON…WESTERN BERGEN…WESTERN ESSEX…
WESTERN PASSAIC AND WESTERN UNION. IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK…
BRONX…KINGS (BROOKLYN)…NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)…NORTHEASTERN
SUFFOLK…NORTHERN NASSAU…NORTHERN QUEENS…NORTHERN
WESTCHESTER…NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK…ORANGE…PUTNAM…
RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)…ROCKLAND…SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK…
SOUTHERN NASSAU…SOUTHERN QUEENS…SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER AND
SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK.

* FROM NOON EDT TODAY THROUGH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT.

* MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS
THE REGION AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE
TUESDAY NIGHT. THE WARM AND VERY HUMID AIRMASS WILL MAKE FOR
THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL
DOWNPOURS…WITH STORM TOTAL RAINFALL BETWEEN 2 TO 3 INCHES.
LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS CAN BE EXPECTED. THIS WILL INCREASE THE
FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL.

* THE MAIN POTENTIAL IMPACTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE FLOODING OF
URBANIZED AS WELL AS LOW LYING AREAS…ROADWAYS…AND IN AREAS
OF POOR DRAINAGE. IN ADDITION…SMALL STREAMS OR RIVERS MAY
EXCEED BANKFULL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP THAT LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION.
YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION
SHOULD FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS BE ISSUED.

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PSE&G Project to modernize low pressure cast iron gas mains in or near flood zones

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PSE&G Project to modernize low pressure cast iron gas mains in or near flood zones 

PSE&G – Energy Strong Gas Project in Ridgewood – Starts July 21

Below are details of gas replacement project that will start in Ridgewood on July 21, 2014.

Click Here for Maps of work locations..

Click Here for FAQ’s

Click Here for a Fact Sheet.

PSE&G Press Release:

New Jersey’s gas and electric infrastructure is on its way to becoming stronger and more resilient thanks to approval of PSE&G’s Energy Strong Program. This $1.22 billion program will allow the utility to proactively protect and strengthen its electric and gas systems against severe weather damage like the state experienced during Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy.

As part of the Energy Strong program, PSE&G will make the following investments during the next few years:

• $620 million to protect, raise or relocate 29 switching and substations that were damaged by water in recent storms.

• $350 million to replace and modernize 250 miles of low-pressure cast iron gas mains in or near flood areas. 

• $100 million to create redundancy in the system, reducing outages when damage occurs.

• $100 million to deploy smart grid technologies to better monitor system operations to increase our ability to more swiftly deploy repair teams.

• $50 million to protect five natural gas metering stations and a liquefied natural gas station affected by Sandy or located in flood zones.

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FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT LATE THIS EVENING AND TOMORROW AM

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FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT LATE THIS EVENING AND TOMORROW AM
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
406 AM EDT SAT MAR 29 2014

…HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT INTO
SUNDAY…

…FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY
EVENING…

THE FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR

* PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT…NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND
SOUTHEAST NEW YORK…INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS…IN SOUTHERN
CONNECTICUT…NORTHERN FAIRFIELD…NORTHERN MIDDLESEX…NORTHERN
NEW HAVEN…NORTHERN NEW LONDON… SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD…SOUTHERN
MIDDLESEX…SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN AND SOUTHERN NEW LONDON. IN
NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY…EASTERN BERGEN…EASTERN ESSEX…EASTERN
PASSAIC…EASTERN UNION… WESTERN BERGEN…WESTERN
ESSEX…WESTERN PASSAIC AND WESTERN UNION. IN SOUTHEAST NEW
YORK…NORTHERN WESTCHESTER…ORANGE… PUTNAM…ROCKLAND AND
SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER.

* FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING

* AS LOW PRESSURE TRACKS FROM THE TENNESSEE VALLEY TODAY AND INTO
THE MID ATLANTIC STATES BY THIS EVENING…STEADY RAIN WILL
DEVELOP BY THIS AFTERNOON. THE RAIN SHOULD THEN BECOME HEAVY AT
TIMES TONIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING.

* RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES AND LOCALLY UP TO 4 INCHES
COULD CA– USE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS…AS WELL AS SIGNIFICANT
URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING BASED ON
CURRENT FORECASTS. YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE
ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOOD WARNINGS. THOSE LIVING IN AREAS PRONE TO
FLOODING SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLOODING
DEVELOP.