>Ridgewood residents continue to press council on flooding issues
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
State Sen. Kevin O’Toole is set to visit Ridgewood on Oct. 26 to tour its hurricane-damaged areas. After pleas at Wednesday’s Village Council meeting, it is clear officials will have their hands full for many months and that many residents are hoping for assistance from the state.
Residents asked the council on Wednesday to create action plans to clean up various ditches and areas of village streams. However, Village Manager Ken Gabbert has pointed out that the village’s top priority now is fixing an area near the Saddle River by Route 17 where an entire sewer line washed away. That work could cost more than $600,000, he said.
“That’s a major engineering process and it is consuming the engineering department,” Gabbert said to resident Leslie Cimino of Burnside Place, who made a pitch at Wednesday’s council meeting for the village to clean up the Zabriskie ditch behind her and her neighbors’ houses, which she said contributes to flooding.
