photos courtesy of Boyd Loving
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, once again rain brings flooding to Village of Ridgewood athletic fields . According to resident Boyd Loving RHS Stadium Field, Stevens Field, and Brookside Field all began flooding shortly before 10 PM on Saturday, 03/09. Flood waters began subsiding shortly after 12 midnight. These photos were taken at the RHS Stadium Field.
The Ridgewood school district and the Village of Ridgewood are collaborating with the Army Corps of Engineers to explore solutions, including the possibility of raising the fields to mitigate future flooding.
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Wait. Why isn’t the Village Manager depicted here ?! He is in EVERY photo
Not a Village owned property. BOE owned.
You jealous or what ? 😘
Because he doesn’t know how to swim
They just cleaned rhs
He knows the Xerxes technique does not work……………….
But maybe Siobhan could try it.
Here we go again. The turf companies are doing the “please make it rain” dance so that can do a tap dance on our heads and keep replacing and maintaning the giant rubber crumb field among others. Someone has got to use their God give brain in the BOE and village and go back to grass in all of the parks. Yeah extended would probably be great, but no play is what is happening here!!
Even with a grass field, the field will still be closed with the amount sediment left after the flood. Plus cleaning the contaminations left from the flood waters still needs to be delt with. Wake up!
Contaminents and PFAS. Turf is toxic.
There’s no profit in God.
Thank you James, you are doing a real service for this community, seriously!
We have said again and again, every time the town changes another field into this fake turf, that it is making the drainage problem worse, causing excess crumb rubber runoff, ending up with fake grass make players more prone to injuries and getting wrinkled, clogged with mud, which is causing endless problems and a six-figute cleanup every time.
Anyone know if Maple Park flooded?
( next to Graydon )
It is Maple FIELD now. They clear cut the old trees and destroyed the park.
BOE problem? Isn’t what the exorbitant taxes are for – paying for “the best” school system? Charming, really charming!
The village manager didn’t have his photo taken there because he has no responsibility for that field. If it was his problem, he would’ve been there.
No chance
If it DIDN’T flood, he would have been there.
“Share the blame, hog the credit.”
“Not a Village owned property. BOE owned.” Still our tax money. 2/3 of pour tqax bill goes to the Board of ED fool.
This is just amazing, 15 years ago when they start putting all these fake fields in I said to myself what the hell are they doing? Why are they removing so much soil? They’re making the fields lower, if anything that was their opportunity to raise it a few feet, I just cannot believe that engineering didn’t get involved at that time. I guess they just didn’t have the Noel or they just didn’t give a shit. Which is it?
Any photos of when they removed so much soil and made the field lower?
Agree they should have raised it , built it up a few feet , more.
Go talk to the folks over at the new Valley Hospital who made the exact same catastrophic mistake on the parking garage! The engineers!!!
flood plain (noun)
an area of low-lying ground adjacent to a river, formed mainly of river sediments and subject to flooding.
https://hazards-fema.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=8b0adb51996444d4879338b5529aa9cd
If you look at the map you will understand there is no solution to the flooding.
Holy cannoli, you’re right. The whole planet is covered in water!
Agree, no solution to the flooding and yet they keep building and building and building! NJ – most densely populated State in the entire Nation – and what’s the answer? BUILD MORE!
Gotta love the magnitude of stupidity, corruption, malfeasance and of course massive cronyism!
Platform the field
No. Then the water just runs into the adjacent neighborhood. You have to build capacity for it to move downstream . . . . all the way downstream. This ain’t no little Ridgewood issue.
Take out the artificial turf or change the banner on the grandstand to “Home of the Morons”.
Cancel sports. Problem solved.
I think canceling sports is the next realistic decision. The fields are off line and a hazard any stretch of imagination.
Longer term residents will sell and move away which realtors and contractors love.
Very grateful that Boyd stayed up and got these photos, because the water had receded by morning. If there had been no photo proof, the board of Ed just wound have said well. There was no flood. No problem. Thank you Boyd and thank you James.
Newsflash, the village manager doesn’t care whether it’s a Village issue or a board of Ed issue. If he can get his photo in he will. He was reading to little kids the other day. That certainly had nothing to do with Village business. That man is so busy getting his photo taken and posting it on social media that I don’t think he’s getting his job done.
He knows the Xerxes technique does not work……………….
But maybe Siobhan could try it.
“If he can get his photo in he will. He was reading to little kids the other day.”
Lots of politicians do this. It shows their concern for education and the kids, and gets them the teachers’ union endorsement ($$$$$$$$).
Then the schools can continue to go down the ideological shytter and the solution is always MORE MONEY.
But to see the smiles on the faces of the children afterwards!
“Wow, I never could do derivatives before, but he/she showed me, and now it is SO easy!!!!!! And I finally can remember Avogadro’s number!!!”
Unfortunately, there was also no photo ops when the NJDEP came to Ridgewood after sending a letter mandating a soil test for which the village needs to pay for to ensure that the alleged illegally dumped soil over on the Schedler property is safe for the kiddies. These important milestones should not be taken for granted as they are important items that the village may want to include in order to be fully transparent. Clean water and clean soil could even be the theme for next year’s calendar.