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Financial In Market A state senator is urging the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission to repair a Berry's Creek tide gate that is believed to cause recurrent lowland flooding here and in East Rutherford.

Oriental Trading Sen. Paul Sarlo, D-Wood-Ridge, sent a letter to commission Executive Director Robert Ceberio late Wednesday night, asking the commission to apply for a 24-hour emergency waiver through the state Department of Environmental Protection to fix the tide gate.

Financial Forex Forex Software Five metal flaps on the gate, which during heavy rains and high tides should keep the creek's water from coming upstream and causing floods, are broken.

Trading "I don't think the work that needs to be performed is all that expensive," Sarlo said. "It's an emergent situation from a public safety standpoint."

Trading Financial System The malfunctioning gate frequently makes lowland roads in the borough and Route 17 impassable during heavy rainstorms and high tides, Sarlo said.

Day Trading East Rutherford Mayor James Cassella said repairing the gate would help alleviate heavy flooding in the borough that occurs underneath a NJ Transit trestle on Route 17.

Forex Financial Trading The "Every time we have steady rain that is over an inch, Route 17 is backed up in both directions," Cassella said.

Fortune Make Option Trading Meadowlands Commission spokesman Chris Gale said that Sarlo's petition is now up for consideration by the commission's board, and an engineering analysis of the tide gate is underway. Commission Chairwoman Susan Bass Levin will bring it before the board at the commission's Feb. 25 meeting, Gale said.

Science Of Financial Market Gale wouldn't comment on when engineering analysis would be finished or when the gate would be repaired.

Future Trading "Flooding is a historical problem in the Meadowlands District," Gale said. "This is especially true when high tides, heavy rain and or melting snow combine ... though the NJMC helped install several tide gates in the 1980s, a strategy for maintenance has not been worked out."

Financial Sales Services By late this afternoon, the lowland areas of the two boroughs could receive up to three inches of rain, said Nancy Figueroa, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Upton, N.Y.

Commodity Trading "Mainly what we're looking at is poor drainage and flooding for that area," Figueroa said.

Financial Services Trading Rutherford Mayor Bernadette McPherson said the borough's Department of Public Works has been clearing ice and snow from the borough's storm drains, which empty into the Passaic River on the west side of the borough and the Hackensack River on the borough's east side.

Online Forex Trading McPherson said she's been working with the commission to get the tide gate fixed.

Financial Portfolio Trade "They're listening and trying to find solutions to problems that are affecting us, like the tide gate," she said.

Sierra Trading Post Additional snow was removed Thursday from storm drains in Rutherford, McPherson said.

Trading Financial Future "We're preparing for the worst," she said.

Forex Trading Software By Matthew Verrinder
Herald News - 2/6/2004

Topic: Meadowlands

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