Wednesday, November 21, 2012
The township is just beginning to figure out how much it will cost to clean up after the hurricane, but the price tag could be over $1 million
Post-Hurricane Sandy clean up could cost the township more than $1 million, said Township Administrator James White. However, much of that cost could be covered by FEMA, with the township only putting money up front and then being reimbursed. “The cost in terms of clean up and everything else, it may be over million, but I want residents to understand that this was a federally declared disaster, so FEMA and the Federal government is actually coming in and they’ve done a great job of opening their pocketbooks very wide. There is a 10 day period where 100 percent of certain costs will be reimbursed.” Mayor Stahl told the council Monday that there is a small window of opportunity during which FEMA will reimbursement 100 percent of certain …
Friday, July 27, 2012
Federal program needs a stable funding source to be effective in a reasonable amount of time.
If it’s summer, it must be time for a Superfund site tour. Last week, Rep. Rodney P. Frelinghuysen visited six sites in the 11th District with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator for Region 2. All the locations—in Rockaway, Rockaway Township (2), Wharton, Dover and Fairfield—have cleanups in progress or are subject to continued monitoring. They are just a few of New Jersey’s 112 sites on Superfund’s National Priorities List. We are the only state with more than 100 sites on the list of most contaminated locations. There are another 100 sites in the state subject to federal monitoring under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act program. Established by Congress through the Comprehensive Environmental Response, …
Friday, September 16, 2011
Storm clean up will continue for months.
The numbers are coming in. During the 72 hours that the remains of Hurricane Irene hit the area, the storm dumped 6.83 inches of rain with winds of 61 mph and brought in a tidal surge of seven and a half feet from the Raritan/South river, said Emergency Management Coordinator Austin Kosik, during Monday’s Township Council Meeting. While those winds were below true hurricane force winds, the damage was done. According to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, a category 1 storm has winds of between 74 and 95 mph; a category 2 has winds between 96 and 110; a category 3 storm has winds between 111 and 130 mph, and a category 4 storm has winds between 131 and 155. “We had 400 trees knocked down by the storm…just imagine what we went through …
