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First of all EPA has nothing to do with this. The Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for flood control projects. Second of all, who in their right mind would sign their name to a petition with such a glaring grammatical error in the title? Third, flooding in NJ is caused by two things: Overdevelopment and excessive amounts of impervious cover (roofs, parking lots, etc...), and development that was allowed in areas where it never should have been (ie: along the Ramapo, Pequannock, Pompton, and Passaic Rivers)-the Army Corps can't build flood control projects fast enough to control the ever greater amounts of runoff flowing into these rivers because it has no place else to go.
What a joke. Do not support these people, because 'petition with such a glaring grammatical error in the title.' Badfish740
Something smells awfully fishy here...
Well, that part was a joke-the fact that EPA has nothing to do with flood control and that overdevelopment and the fact that NJ has allowed extensive building in floodplains for years were the real reasons.
To be fair, a lot of the houses and buildings in floodplains are the older ones; there's a lot of reasons floodplains tended to get built in FIRST.
And one of the reasons for that is the floodplains of the past were less expansive than they are today. So those old houses, while currently residing within a floodplain, likely weren't in a flood plain when they were constructed. The development and paving that has taken place all over the State has forced more water into the river channel and therefore increased the size of the floodplains.
First of all EPA has nothing to do with this. The Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for flood control projects. Second of all, who in their right mind would sign their name to a petition with such a glaring grammatical error in the title? Third, flooding in NJ is caused by two things: Overdevelopment and excessive amounts of impervious cover (roofs, parking lots, etc...), and development that was allowed in areas where it never should have been (ie: along the Ramapo, Pequannock, Pompton, and Passaic Rivers)-the Army Corps can't build flood control projects fast enough to control the ever greater amounts of runoff flowing into these rivers because it has no place else to go.
This pretty much sums it up.
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Something smells awfully fishy here...
