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FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING

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…FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY
EVENING…

THE FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR

* PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK…
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS…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)…NORTHERN NASSAU…
NORTHERN QUEENS…NORTHERN WESTCHESTER…RICHMOND (STATEN
ISLAND)…ROCKLAND…SOUTHERN NASSAU…SOUTHERN QUEENS AND
SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER.

* FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING

* HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THE REMNANTS OF BILL IS EXPECTED TO IMPACT
THE AREA TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS
EXPECTED TO OCCUR DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS TONIGHT INTO SUNDAY
MORNING…AND COULD LEAD TO WIDESPREAD URBAN AND SMALL STREAM
FLOODING. STORM TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE
BETWEEN 1 TO 2 INCHES…ALTHOUGH AMOUNTS OF UP TO 3 INCHES WILL
BE POSSIBLE WITH AREAS OF HEAVIER RAIN…AND IN THUNDERSTORMS.
THE HEAVY RAINFALL SATURDAY NIGHT COULD FALL WITHIN A SHORT
PERIOD OF TIME…LEADING TO SHARP RISES ON SMALL STREAMS AND
CREEKS IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SIGNIFICANT POOR DRAINAGE
FLOODING IN URBAN AREAS.

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.

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Ho-Ho-Kus planners blast online petition

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Ho-Ho-Kus planners blast online petition

OCTOBER 26, 2014    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER | 
THE RECORD

HO-HO-KUS — An online petition opposing a controversial subdivision proposal has disappeared from the Web, not even 24 hours after being dubbed “illegal” by Planning Board Chairman John Hanlon.

Launched via Change.org, the petition called on the Planning Board to reject a subdivision application filed months ago by Upper Saddle River’s Chamberlain Developers.

The Planning Board has been considering the application since the spring.

Chamberlain seeks to convert nearly 4 acres of mostly wooded land into 11 single-home plots, called the Hollows at Ho-Ho-Kus.

Seven of the 11 subdivided lots would be accessible via a proposed cul-de-sac opening onto West Saddle River Road, while four other properties would have frontage on Van Dyke Drive.

The survey called the planned project deficient and not compatible with the borough’s master plan.

Hanlon said at a meeting last week the survey was emailed twice to each of the Planning Board’s 10 members; only one, Borough Administrator Don Cirulli, read it.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/ho-ho-kus-planners-blast-online-petition-1.1118238#sthash.RF6PNylT.dpuf

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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 Soccer 11 months a year…crazy…

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Reader says Soccer 11 months a year…crazy…

Remove the friggin’ lights. This is not Friday Night Lights. Horrendous.

Trouble is not with grass but too many people and teams expecting the grass to withstand continuous use. It needs time to recover.

Reduce the number of teams and forget the leagues. Just stop it and give us our parks back. They’re all ruined.

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Reader says it only fair that the Sports Groups step up and contribute to maintenance and depreciation of the turf fields

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Reader says it only fair that the Sports Groups step up and contribute to maintenance and depreciation of the turf fields 

If the sports clubs have gotten so much value out of the fields, I would think it only fair that they step up and contribute to maintenance and depreciation. It shouldn’t always be the VC or BOE (the rest of us). Given that maintenance seems to be running about $100K year and depreciation another $200K for $1.5M to replace the carpets after a flood-shortened 7 year life, the sports clubs should be contributing on the order of $100K.

Raise dues if you have to — it’s part of the true cost of doing business.

And did they ever contribute everything they had promised for the lights?

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Readers says frustrating and costly when the turf has to be cleaned and repaired after flooding the grass was worse

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Readers says frustrating and costly when the turf has to be cleaned and repaired after flooding the grass was worse 

Agreed, it is frustrating and costly when the turf has to be cleaned and repaired after flooding. But, remember, when those fields were grass the “Stadium” was used a maximum of a dozen times a year. 5 or 6 home football games and a couple of lacrosse games. And of course graduation. The field was so bad that visiting teams threatened to file official complaints and refuse to play on the field. Stevens was a glorified parking lot and nothing took place on that field besides RHS football practice and adult softball. Both of those fields are now in constant use. RHS Varsity and sub varsity sports (Football, soccer, lacrosse,) are on them almost non-stop during the afternoons and youth sports utilize them in the evenings and weekends almost non-stop as well. The result has been much improved conditions on the grass fields in town as most of the pre-season and poor weather “days” events are conducted on the turf fields and the grass fields are closed. If you look at if from the angle of cost per use, it isn’t even close even with the repair costs. The fields are much more “productive” and we’re not spending money on seed, weed killer, fertilizer, and labor for cutting and maintaining those fields. I’m not saying it is a wash but the total cost difference probably isn’t as great as you think.

Schedler, Habernickel, and Citizens are all Village owned fields. Might be fun to try and get the Village Council to step up and spend some money on any of those fields. They haven’t spent squat on maintaining Maple Park and now that field is going to have to be replaced. They can’t even agree on the simplest things, how would they even consider spending money on new fields?

One question I would ask. What ever happened to the dredging program that was begun a couple of years ago? Was it completed? I don’t recall seeing any “work” done near Graydon or down by Stevens or RHS. Multiply 2 or 3 feet of dre

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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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Ridgewood repairs artificial turf fields after costly flooding

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Ridgewood repairs artificial turf fields after costly flooding

AUGUST 8, 2014    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

RIDGEWOOD — Thousands of dollars are being spent this week to repair the village’s turf fields, which were damaged late last week when heavy rain caused flash flooding.

The artificial turf field at the village’s Maple Park suffered $48,000 in damage, Ridgewood officials said at a council meeting this week.

Workers began cleaning silt and dirt from the turf surface at Ridgewood High School on Thursday; some resultant wrinkles in the field will also be removed.

Flood damage will also be repaired at nearby Stevens Field, which is also owned by the school district.

Earlier this week, Ridgewood school officials allocated an emergency expenditure of $119,865 for the work.

It is expected the school fields will be usable within two weeks, when the school’s soccer and football teams are set to start practices.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/towns/ridgewood-repairs-artificial-turf-fields-after-costly-flooding-1.1064553#sthash.cxu8q4T3.dpuf

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Ridgewood incurs costly damage from recent flash flooding

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Reader says Predictable, predicted, horrendous

This will be the LAST storm ever, though…right?

Another $119,865 to repair 2 turfed fields + $48,000 for turf on Maple Field (no longer Park, so let’s admit it and change the name). Plus who-knows-what in change orders.

Deductible is $25,000! That must have been somebody’s great idea to save money on the insurance.

We are going to go broke over this fiasco. It even failed a referendum but it happened anyway. Sickening waste. Meanwhile people are literally starving all over the world.

The turf MUST GO. It’s either now or later. Now is better. But nobody can admit to making a mistake. Well, this was a huge one.

Ridgewood incurs costly damage from recent flash flooding
August 7, 2014
BY JODI WEINBERGER
STAFF WRITER

Bubbles pop up on the Ridgewood High School field after a quick but powerful rainstorm led to flash flooding throughout the village last Friday.

Last Friday’s flash flood is costing the school district and municipality hundreds of thousands of dollars in cleanup costs.

The Board of Education (BOE) received authorization from the Bergen County Department of Education this week to award a bid to LandTek for $119,865 for “emergency repair” of two district-owned artificial turf fields.

Business Administrator Michael Falkowski said there was “extensive” damage at Ridgewood High School and Stevens fields following the Aug. 1 storm and that the playing grounds are “not useable” in their current state.

The money will come out of the 2015 district budget and possibly an emergency reserve fund, he said.

“This is just for the fields,” Falkowski said. “There’s other work that needs to be done,” including general cleanup of the area.

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Neighbors fear proposed Ho-Ho-Kus subdivision might worsen flooding

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Neighbors fear proposed Ho-Ho-Kus subdivision might worsen flooding

AUGUST 2, 2014    LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

HO-HO-KUS — Residents who live near a proposed subdivision said they are worried the development will change the look of the neighborhood and might exacerbate flooding problems near their homes.

Six homeowners spoke out this week against the project, dubbed the Hollows at Ho-Ho-Kus, which proposes dividing 4 acres into 11 single-home plots.

“This is literally in my back yard,” Brandywine Road resident Anthony DiGiacomo told the Planning Board, before bemoaning a proposed 7-foot-tall retaining wall in the plan.

“You never expect that a 7-foot-high wall may be built behind your house,” said DiGiacomo, a resident since 2001, adding he fears a proposed stone trench drawn into the plans will disturb the root systems of trees on his property.

The parcel — currently the site of a large building with some accessory structures — is located at West Saddle River Road and Hollywood Avenue, extending to Van Dyke Drive.

“My initial reaction to the plans was that it appeared to be an awful lot of homes in a fairly small area,” said DiGiacomo. “This neighborhood is a beautiful area of Ho-Ho-Kus that I feel is being threatened.”

The DiGiacomos are one of the nine couples who have hired attorney Robert Inglima to oppose the subdivision on the basis that it would change the character of the neighborhood, as well as disrupt a “natural drainage” system that has been at work in the area for some 60 years.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/neighbors-say-flooding-is-an-issue-1.1061220#sthash.NBner1BA.dpuf

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Reader Reports flooding and erosion on Dunham Trail

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Reader Reports flooding and erosion on Dunham Trail

Just wanted to alert the walkers, runners and bikers that  portions of the Dunham Trail that runs from Grove St to Spring Ave has experienced some serious embankment erosion. One area is very dicey…the path  barely “single track” wide. Take care with your dogs and yourselves.

Twinney Pond Park is located at the north end of Red Birch Court. Twinney pond offers a wildlife area, nature trails and ice-skatin

 

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Flood Watch for Bergen County – Wednesday PM to Thursday AM

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Flood Watch for Bergen County – Wednesday PM to Thursday AM

Advisory: Flood Watch in effect for Bergen Co. area from Wed. Afternoon thru Thurs. Morning.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT…NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK…INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS…IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT…SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY. IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY…BERGEN…ESSEX…HUDSON…PASSAIC AND UNION COUNTIES. IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK…ALL OF NEW YORK CITY…AND ROCKLAND…WESTCHESTER AND NASSAU COUNTIES. 

* FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. 

* RAIN WITH AN APPROACHING FRONTAL SYSTEM SHOULD BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES BY LATE DAY WEDNESDAY. FLOODING OF URBAN…LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS POSSIBLE AS EARLY AS THE WEDNESDAY EVENING RUSH HOUR…WITH 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN EXPECTED BY THAT TIME. 

* AS THE HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES WEDNESDAY NIGHT…STORM TOTAL RAINFALL WILL INCREASE TO 3 TO 4 INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS…INCREASING THE THREAT OF WIDESPREAD…SIGNIFICANT URBAN…LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING…AS WELL AS FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS. 

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.

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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.

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In New Jersey, rising flood insurance rates not just an issue at the shore

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In New Jersey, rising flood insurance rates not just an issue at the shore

BURLINGTON CITY — If flooding were a real concern for Taylor Rambo, he said he wouldn’t have built a bar in his basement.

Yet he pays about $2,700 each year for flood insurance he is required to have as part of his mortgage, and the amount is likely to rise quickly as the federal government raises premiums paid by home and business owners through the subsidized National Flood Insurance Program.

“It worries me a lot because it makes my escrow go up and I can’t afford it,” said Rambo, who said he hasn’t had any water in his basement in the 17 years he’s owned his house in Burlington City, a blue-collar town between Philadelphia and Trenton and about 45 miles from the New Jersey shore, where flooding has become a high-profile and expensive problem.

More than 1,000 property owners in Burlington City, which is situated along the Delaware River, paid $1.5 million in premiums subsidized by the program last year. In the 40 years the community has been part of the program, residents have received payouts of only about $500,000.

That’s a sharp contrast with several towns on the shore — including Toms River, Union Beach and Sea Bright — where the historic payouts have been 50 times the premiums collected there each year. (Associated Press/Press of Atlantic City)

https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/in-new-jersey-rising-flood-insurance-rates-not-just-an/article_a3aab6c6-b2c4-11e3-88c8-0019bb2963f4.html