It said, in part:
Striding through the South Mountain Reservation, a patch of wilderness in an otherwise highly developed corner of New Jersey, Fred R. Profeta Jr. does not see the stands of oaks and maples or the shimmering streams so much as their absence.
A
lifelong hiker and former mayor of nearby Maplewood, Mr. Profeta is in
the vanguard of a movement to stop what he says is the planned
destruction of the heart of the reservation, a county park more than a
century old through which the west branch of the Rahway River flows.
During
Tropical Storm Irene and other major storms, the Rahway, usually more
of a creek, caused severe flooding in communities downstream like
Millburn and Cranford.
Ever
since, local officials have appealed to the United States Army Corps of
Engineers to come up with a way to stop the floods, especially in an
era of climate change when extreme weather is expected to become more
common.
This
spring, as part of its study of solutions, the Army Corps released a
preliminary analysis of the cost-benefit ratios of seven
flood-mitigation alternatives for the Rahway River Basin.
See the rest HERE.
Also stay up with the cause at http://sornj.org/
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