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The Ho-Ho-Kus Brook is in major need of dredging, deepening, and cleaning

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photo by Boyd Loving 


The Ho-Ho-Kus Brook is in major need of dredging, deepening, and cleaning


No question about it: the turf field served to exacerbate the flooding conditions at RHS experienced yesterday. I can recall a graduation ceremony held at RHS in 2001 during which thunderstorms, of about the same severity and intensity as those we saw yesterday, rolled through the area before and during the ceremony. The grass was very wet, but the field did not flood. 


Here is what is going wrong: the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook is in major need of dredging, deepening, and cleaning; too, rules governing the construction of structures and fences within the flood plain of the brook need to be enforced. These are a few of the reasons why we are seeing the HHK brook overflow its banks with increasing frequency. And, of course, the turf field: located within the flood plain, it does not absorb the water but rather it collects it. Hence an area of pooled water that is very much in evidence in the photos provided

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Ridgewood High School Athletic Stadium Floods – Graduation Ceremony Moved To RHS Front Lawn

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Ridgewood High School Athletic Stadium Floods – Graduation Ceremony Moved To RHS Front Lawn
Boyd Loving


The HoHoKus Brook overflowed its banks on Thursday afternoon flooding the RHS athletic stadium.
 
The graduation ceremony for the RHS class of 2011 was moved to the front lawn of RHS as a result.
 
Workers moved chairs from the athletic field to the front lawn following a heavy downpour in mid afternoon.

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photos by Boyd Loving

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Ridgewood : Flash Flood Watch

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FLOOD WATCH: NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
349 AM EDT THU JUN 23 2011

…PERIODS OF TORRENTIAL RAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS THE LOWER
HUDSON VALLEY…NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY…NEW YORK CITY AND NASSAU COUNTY…

.A WARM FRONT EXTENDING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE LOCAL AREA FROM A LOW
PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER WISCONSIN WILL SERVE AS THE FOCUS FOR THE
CONVERGENCE OF MOISTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP IN THIS
ENVIRONMENT WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN…RESULTING
IN AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING.

WESTERN PASSAIC-EASTERN PASSAIC-HUDSON-WESTERN BERGEN-
EASTERN BERGEN-WESTERN ESSEX-EASTERN ESSEX-WESTERN UNION-
EASTERN UNION-ORANGE-PUTNAM-ROCKLAND-NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-
SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER-NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-BRONX-
RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)-KINGS (BROOKLYN)-NORTHERN QUEENS-
NORTHERN NASSAU-SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU-
349 AM EDT THU JUN 23 2011.

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Report: Pedestrian bridge at Ridgewood High School needs work

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Report: Pedestrian bridge at Ridgewood High School needs work

FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2011  
BY KELLY EBBELS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

A pedestrian bridge that connects the two athletic fields at Ridgewood High School (RHS) – crossed by hundreds of students each day – has structural deficiencies that have yet to be addressed by the school district, and vehicles have been seen using the bridge despite a weight limit, according to a village resident who lives near RHS.

The pedestrian bridge connecting Stadium and Stevens fields at Ridgewood High School was closed following flooding in April.
More than two years ago, the Ridgewood school district received an engineering report on the pedestrian bridge over the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook between athletics fields at Ridgewood High School (RHS), citing concerns with the bridge’s structural integrity.

The report, prepared by Mark Micucci of Micucci Engineering and delivered to the district in January 2009, notes that the exposed top side of the bridge is in “relatively good condition” and its underside in “fair condition,” but reveals problems with the structure of its abutments, particularly its southern abutment.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/123598184_Report__Pedestrian_bridge_needs_work.html

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Another $21k Down The Brook : Turf field’s ‘wrinkle release’ costs $21,000

>Ridgewood turf field’s ‘wrinkle release’ costs $21,00
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Staff Writer

The final repair of the wrinkles left on new turf installed on Ridgewood High School’s (RHS) Stadium Field after flooding this month cost the school district about $21,000, Superintendent Daniel Fishbein disclosed at a Board of Education (BOE) meeting Monday night.

Answering an initial question from BOE member Laurie Goodman, who asked for a cost estimate of the cleanup of the fields following heavy rains on April 16, Fishbein responded that the cleanup was being conducted by the district’s contracted custodial company, “so there’s no additional costs.”

However, when The Ridgewood News questioned Fishbein during the public comment portion of the meeting about the cost of hiring an outside company, LandTek, to repair the turf wrinkles, the superintendent reported that the field repair in fact cost about $21,000.

“I’m sorry. There was a cost for LandTek. I neglected to say that,” he said, adding that he considered the repair of the wrinkles a “correction” and not a “clean-up” cost.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/120734824_Ridgewood_turf_field_s__wrinkle_release__costs__21_000.html

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April showers leave wrinkles on Ridgewood fields

>April showers leave wrinkles on Ridgewood fields
Monday, April 25, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Staff Writer

Another weekend of heavy rains and flooding from the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook damaged the artificial turf fields at Ridgewood High School, and prompted a new flurry of concern from neighboring residents.

A district worker cleans Stevens Field. The district hired a company to clean the fields after they were flooded in March, but decided this month to do the cleanup in-house.
Consecutive days of rain in March also left the fields flooded, and a cleanup effort following those storms was still under way when recent rainfall dropped on the village.

The cleanup last week was proceeding differently at village and school fields than in March. After paying a private contractor to clean the fields last month ($21,000 for the RHS fields and $9,500 for Maple Park Field), both the village and school district chose to use in-house employees last week. The village and school district rented a sweeper to clean the fields.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/120609369_Rainfall_again_damages_Ridgewood_sports_fields.html

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