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Westwood NJ, Westwood Mayor Ray Arroyo is calling on residents of Westwood and surrounding neighborhoods to share their personal experiences with flooding. The Borough of Westwood is gathering firsthand accounts to support a FEMA application aimed at identifying flood-prone areas and developing potential solutions.
How to Share Your Flooding Experience
Residents and property owners are encouraged to submit their flood stories via email by Tuesday, March 4, 2025 to khughes@westwoodnj.gov with the subject line “Flood Experience.”
What to Include in Your Submission:
- First Name
- General Location (e.g., neighborhood or nearest intersection; if outside Westwood, please specify the municipality)
- Flooding Experience: Describe past flooding events, including:
- Approximate dates
- Extent of flooding
- Impact on your home or property (water depth, damages, access issues, actions taken, etc.)
Photos Encouraged!
If you have pictures of flood impacts, please attach up to two photos per incident and label them with the event name or date for clarity.
Why Your Input Matters
Your firsthand experiences will help document the effects of flooding in the area, providing valuable data to secure FEMA funding for flood mitigation projects.
Deadline: Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Submit your response to khughes@westwoodnj.gov with the subject line “Flood Experience” before the deadline.
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A floodplain is an area of land adjacent to a river that stretches from the banks of the river channel to the base of the enclosing valley. It experiences flooding during periods of high discharge and is composed of unconsolidated sedimentary deposits such as clays, silts, sands, and gravels. Floodplains are formed by the movement of rivers, eroding the earth around them and creating a wide, flat valley on either side of their banks. They are common features found along major rivers and tributary valleys.
Don’t bother.
This is exactly the kind of crap DOGE is weeding out.
Here Westwood ill help you figure it out. It’s a FLOODPLAIN move to higher ground.
Your welcome.
All that work and submissions for nothing. Like the Army Corp of Engineer’s Ridgewood effort, NOTHING will come of it. Builders and the administration at the time, built on a floodplain (well described above) and NOTHING will change that.
I recommend Ridgewood buy back (or take) the old Valley Hospital site. You chased them away, now let’s make chicken salad from chicken shit. Put your High School / Schedler fields there, and end the flooding once and for all. I know, makes too much sense.